[pct-l] PCT Baja to Manning

[rellinwood at worldnet.att.net (Robert Ellinwood)]

Two quotes from Meegan's book to ponder:

??The tragedy of travel is what you don?t get to see, whatever it is that
lies just beyond the horizon -- and that means most everything except for
the thin line of one?s trail.?   
- George Meegan,   The Longest Walk (Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic)

? ?I see that in essence you?re in a prison cell and banging your head
against the same walls every day.?  Most perceptive, I told him.  It was a
rare person who could see this
bleaker side of my journey.  Most thought I was as free as a bird ? had I
not dubbed my walk a Celebration of Freedom? ? and couldn?t see that at the
same time I was a
prisoner of my own dream.?    -  George Meegan,   The Longest Walk (Tierra
del Fuego to the Arctic)

Dr Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-
> bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Matt Bradley
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:26 PM
> To: Tortoise; pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Baja to Manning
> 
> George Meegan actually did something similar to this.  Although it was
> "only" from Tierra Del Fuego to Alaska.  It took him 6 or 7 years and
along
> the way he got married and had 2 kids.  The entire journey was something
> like 19000 miles and it is chronicled in the book The Longest Walk.  It is
a
> very entertaining and interesting book and i would reccommend it to
anyone.
> Peace and Love,
> Matt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tortoise" <Tortoise73@charter.net>
> To: "Monte Dodge" <montedodge@msn.com>
> Cc: "pct-l" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Baja to Manning
> 
> 
> > Hey Monte,
> >
> > Stop being such a pansy. Let's go for extreme thru hiking;  -- other
> > than me that is. :-)
> >
> > Start at the south pole around Sept 21, then hike the bi-continental
> > pacific crest trail thru South America (need to do some route finding)
> > up the Isthmus of Panama Crest and keep on going on the PCT and then
> > thru Canada to the North Pole by about the next Sept 21. And down south,
> > you would have a stretch of ocean kayaking just to add more extreme
> > adventure. Probably could sell the exclusive story/video rights to
> > Discovery Channel to help pay for it.  Anyone fool enough to take this
> > on.  Any one would only have to average around 70 miles per day. Start
> > training now!
> >
> > ----------
> > Tortoise
> >
> > I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
> > Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
> >
> > Monte Dodge wrote:
> > >  Too bad Mexico doesn't have a trail from Cabo up the Baja to tie into
> our PCT. You could start at Land's End Jan 1st. and still make it to the
> kick off in time. Baja has miles of power lines and would serve as trail
> just like our Mojave aquaduc. Lots of great mountains there to boots which
> are some of the least explored anywhere. I ran into a bunch of VERY tall
> locals near Santiago which I am told are direct grandsons of pirates that
> retired and blended into the high hills. ( Lots of caves and rumors of
gold
> still hidden. ) One of the new hotels at Cabo just dug up a large jar of
> gold Spanish coins while digging their foundation. It's time to hike the B
> to B trail . ( Baja to Banff) Link here is to the Stehekin Valley On-line
> paper which did a short story on our recent snowshoe trip and is a great
> info source on
>
Stehekin..http://www.stehekinchoice.com/voices/photos/power_point_flash/show
>
shoeing_2006/2006_monte_snowshoeing.htm<http://www.stehekinchoice.com/voices
> /photos/pow
> > er_point_flash/showshoeing_2006/2006_monte_snowshoeing.htm>
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