[pct-l] trail routing north of Belden

AsABat AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net
Tue Jul 1 19:13:06 CDT 2008


The 2005 update to the guidebook mentions that the PCT crosses the creek
twice. Someone had the update online but I can't find anything other
than Wilderness Press's announcement that it was available
http://www.backcountry.net/arch/pct/0503/msg01216.html 

AsABat

>  From what I can gather from assorted Web references, the trail route
> north from Belden, up the Chips Creek drainage, to Poison Spring is
> significantly divergent from what's in the guidebook.
> 
> Can someone who's been up that stretch recently shed some light on
> exactly what the situation is? Is there one confusing creek crossing
> around Myrtle Flat? Several? Does the current route drop all the way
> down to Chips Creek proper, or remain high up the slope? Did people
> end up going XC between Myrtle Flat and Poison Spring? Cairns?




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