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pct-l-digest          Tuesday, April 29 1997          Volume 01 : Number 131



In this issue:

    RE: [pct-l] RE: Traffic patterns
    Re: [pct-l] Section A Conditions
    [pct-l] re: homemade gear
    [pct-l] Section A Trail Report
    [pct-l] Bear Alert
    [pct-l] PCT Hikers
    [pct-l] Re: ATM Accessibility to PCT
    [pct-l] Now bears?

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 97 11:52:21 UT
From: "Joe Sobinovsky" <sobinovsky@msn.com>
Subject: RE: [pct-l] RE: Traffic patterns

From:  John Koch
Subject:  Re: [pct-l] RE: Traffic patterns

joe,
on seeing your post, i was curious as to how many of these individuals 
were veterans of other long distant trails and how many were first 
timers. do you know?

John,

That's another tough question but I would say that as many as 30-50% of PCT 
thru-hikers are AT veterans.  Certainly more than a quarter of them have some 
long distance hiking experience.  And probably less than half of them are 
first timers (if that means this was their first attempt at any long distance 
hiking).  I would like to hear from some of last year's hikers about these 
estimates but I know there were a bunch of AT veterans on the PCT in 1995.

Joe at the PCTA office  
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:25:42 -0700
From: Bob Mitchell <rmitchel@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Section A Conditions

Hello Everyone.

And now the report from slightly further north in Section A:

This weekend (April 26/27) I backpacked ~10 miles south from Barrel Springs.
The trough was full and the pipe was flowing pretty good. There were
still plenty of wild flowers blooming, including a few cacti. I didn't
see any snakes, just lizards and some deer tracks.

I met 5 through hikers at the Spring around 10am Saturday. 
Sorry I forgot their names for those tracking friends/relatives.
I was too excited and nervous, thanks to meeting my first real
through hikers on the trail, to concentrate clearly.
One of them (at least) was a member of this list.

I also passed a solo through hiker near the top later in the
afternoon.

There were 4 other day hikers that I met going south and 2 hiking
north of Barrel Springs towards Warner Springs on Sunday. 

Sunday, back at the spring, I met another solo through hiker. He
had just completed the AT in February. He raced past my campsite
the evening before around 7pm and I noticed he'd slept on the 
trail (very few flat spots otherwise).

The ascent was very hot and completely treeless. I'd like to think
it was only in the high 80's on Saturday. I foolishly hiked during 
much of the midday heat. The wind picked up pretty good later in the
evening (until morning). Returning on Sunday was much easier as I 
started before the sun had a chance.
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