[pct-l] request for advice or help (Denis Stanton)

[Tom Bache]

Denis,

It seems to me that one of the greatest values of this list is the way it
offers a place to ask for advice and assistance.

I did the Horseshoe Meadows to Kennedy Meadows hitch two summers ago --
though I like to leave my car at the end and hitch to the start when I'm
clean (can make it easier to get a ride).  Also has the advantage of getting
the uncertainty out of the way.

By late morning there are usually lots of people coming out of the mountains
at Horseshoe -- you'll probably see some of them on the trail.  Some of them
will be heading south on 395 -- so ask for a ride, and you'll soon get one
(it took me 30 seconds after parking my car at the trailhead).  If this
doesn't work, go a few hundred yards down the road to add the chance to pick
up a ride with a car camper exiting the campground. If there are lots of
people around, I'd pass up a ride to Lone Pine (where hitching is more
difficult) to find somebody going south on 395.

You'll want to get dropped at the junction with the road up to KM.  There is
very little traffic on this road, but most of the cars that come by are
hiker friendly.  Hope you get a ride soon, because this junction has little
shade, and the temperature will be HOT.

Good luck, and have a great time ...

Tom
San Diego 


> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 13:01:18 +1200
> From: Denis Stanton <denisstanton at mac.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] request for advice or help
> To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
> 
> hi
> 
> I hope it's not unethical for a newcomer to this list to ask for
> advice and possibly for assistance with transport.
> 
> I need to get from Horseshoe Meadows (Trail Pass area) to Kennedy
> Meadows on Saturday 9th June.
> 
> I'm thinking that there won't be very much normal traffic going down
> the road from Horseshoe Meadows to Lone Pine, or from Pearsonville on
> the 395 to Kennedy Meadows, but as these are both common re-supply
> points what traffic there is will be hiker-friendly.
> 
> My son Craig (Sunwalker) is a thru-hiker (http://pct2007.org) from
> New Zealand.  I have an opportunity to join him on the trail for a
> few days on-route (or rather off-route) to attending a conference in
> San Francisco.  The current plan is to get a rental car in San
> Francisco and drive down I-5 and across to Kennedy Meadows on
> Wednesday 6th.  Hike with him up the PCT to arrive at Trail Pass
> early on Saturday 10th, and then hitch back to the car at Kennedy
> Meadows and drive back to San Francisco late Saturday night.
> 
> Comments, ranging from '"you're mad" to "yeh, that'll work" welcome.
> Suggestions as to how easy or hard it will be to get down the
> Horseshoe Meadows road to Lone Pine also welcome.  I don't know
> whether there is a shuttle service operating out of Lone Pine if
> things get desperate, but hopefully my cell will work from the
> Horseshoe Meadow road if I had to.
> 
> regards
> 
> Denis Stanton