[pct-l] How flat is So Cal?

[Eric Payne]

I'm thinking about not getting my trekking poles until Kennedy Meadows.  I
typically always use trekking poles when there is lots of tricky eleveation
gain, but I have a mental image of most of the PCT (especially socal) being
very graded.  How wrong am I?  I definitely want the poles for the sketchy
fords in the Sierra, and then I'll keep them beyond that.  I can just
remember all of the times on the AT when I hated using them on flat
sections.  They seemed sort of like a waste of time in those sections, and I
didn't like using the energy to swing them...it felt unnatural and just
something else to pay attention to.  Can you say lazy?  Still...it also
seems that it would use less energy, thus calories, thus less water in
socal.
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