[pct-l] Re: Favorite PCT area

["Greg Hummel" <ghummel@hydrogenburner.com>]

My favorite PCT area?  Hmmm, that's a hard question with all of the great areas.

 

My list, FWIW, in no particular order:

 

- Whitewater Canyon, San Bernardino Mtns., Calif.

    A great desert canyon with a roaring stream racing off of the side of Mt.San Gorgonio, lots of large sand bars, sun, very different from the rest of the trail.

 

- Ansel Adams Wilderness Area, Calif.

    A long term favorite of mine.  Some of the best scenery in the high Sierra.

 

- Northern Yosemite (nth of Toulumne Meadows), Calif.

    The largest roadless area in California and arguably the wildest.

 

- Meadows near Nth and Middle Sister, Oregon

    The lupine, the view of the volcanoes marching north, black sand bubbling spring

 

- Eagle Creek, Columbia River Gorge area, Oregon

    THE BEST waterfalls and beautiful polished black basalt gorges, green ferns against black rock.

 

- Mt. Baker area, Washington

    Great views of the Nth Cascades, wild, green, hot springs, rain :-(

 

- Suiatle River valley and Stehekin area, Washington

    Spectacular scenery like that you see on jigsaw puzzle boxes!  Wild.

 

- Pasayton Valley, Washington

    A taste of British Columbia and the undeveloped, untrammeled look and feel.  Abundant wildlife and the knowledge that out there somewhere are grizzly!

 

I'd have to say a tie between Eagle Creek and Ansel Adams Wilderness Area.

 

IMHO,

 

Greg "Strider" Hummel