[pct-l] permits

[Robert W. Freed]

All I said was that a ranger refused to issue me a Whitney permit after I told him I
would be day hiking in from the west side. He said I didn't "need one."
I already had a through hike permit and a bear can. I think it was more of a why
bother, no one is going to be checking permits in that area any way. But still, I
insisted and he refused to issue me a sticker.
 
Robert
 

--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Bob Sartini <r.sartini at rcn.com> wrote:

From: Bob Sartini <r.sartini at rcn.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] permits
To: "Donna "L-Rod" Saufley" <dsaufley at sprynet.com>, "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>, pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 10:15 AM

When you say the Rangers make exceptions for thruhikers does that mean 
bearcans are optional for thruhikers? I still don't have an idea if bear 
cans  are just a "rule" or we REALLY need a bear cams. I get a lot of

"follow the rules" type answers and I'll be a good dubie and get
one but do 
I NEED one. If I'm a first class food hanger is that REALLY not good
enough. 
Are Sierra bears exposed to more clueless people than the Shendoah or the 
Smokies? That would be a new level of cluelessness  I think.
"EVERYTHING is in walking distance,"
    ......Bamboo Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna "L-Rod" Saufley" <dsaufley at sprynet.com>
To: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>;
<pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] permits


> Hmmm, I think that needs to be qualified a bit.  You don't need a
Whitney 
> sticker if you're accessing from the JMT's approach out of
Crabtree.  You 
> DO have to have a permit if you're staying overnight pretty much
anywhere 
> in the Sierras, or accessing the range through most side trails (ie., 
> Cottonwood Pass, Kearsarge, etc.) and some of those areas have quotas.
>
> Access to Whitney from the eastern Portal side is the ONLY place I've
seen 
> a ranger on the trail actively checking for permits and bear cans. 
I've 
> heard that they make exceptions for PCT thru-hikers, but that's not 
> something I would want to leave to chance.  If a resupply in Lone Pine 
> using the Whitney Portal Trail is planned, it might not be a bad idea to 
> get the Whitney sticker.
>
> L-Rod
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>
>>Sent: Nov 28, 2008 9:58 AM
>>To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>>Subject: [pct-l] permits
>>
>> In 2007 the park rangers at the inter agency ranger station in Lone
Pine 
>> said you only need a Whitney permit if you are entering or exiting via

>> Whitney Portal. If you are just making a Whitney detour from Crabtree 
>> Meadows "no permit required". I suggest that you resupply
via Onion 
>> Valley. Who wants to carry a pee bag for the next hundred miles any
way.
>>
>>Robert
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