[pct-l] How steep is the trail

[Carolyn Eddy]

Oh, thanks, now I have THIS running thru my head for several hundred miles. I survived the herd thread only to be brought down by THIS!!

Sweet Goat mama
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Batchelor 
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] How steep is the trail


  Was it just me, or did anyone else suddenly hear a BeeGees tune in their head when they read this subject line

  How Steep is the Trial - is the trail - How steep is the trail - I really want to know  - Cause I'm walking many miles this year, thinking of thru . . .  



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  From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Kathi
  Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 10:54 AM
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net
  Subject: [pct-l] How steep is the trail


  Hello PCT-l friends,
  I have a maybe silly question. How steep is the trail on the PCT? I have had most of my backpacking expeditions in the Sierra's and have found myself on steep areas but never on a "trail" to where I felt I needed an ice axe... even in very snowy conditions. Including the time I hiked in with "no" snow and woke up with my tent buried in snow and had to slog out the next morning. I have always been able to find another way on a not so steep slop, even sliding slowly on my sleeping pad with my heels dug in to the snow like an inch worm (that was always off trail in an unusual situation). Now if I went off trail to explore I felt I needed one. If the trail is also traveled by horses it seems it can't be that steep? Am I wrong? I am the type who always find that easier way to go even if it means going out of my way.

  I am proud to say that I have decided that 2010 is my year to thru the PCT. Now of course all I can think about it the trail.

  Thanks for any insight!
  Kathi



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