[pct-l] Southbound from Canada into Washington

[Devon Taig]

That's a really good question...If you cross into the United States
illegally from Canada on the PCT, would you be able to drive back into
Canada again at a border crossing station) since their wouldn't be
documentation that you had left Canada in the first place?  I can imagine a
border guard saying..."You's in a heap-a-trouble-boy...seems like you's on
the wrong side of this here fence".
So, the new procedure for the would-be illegal border crossers and
thru-hikers is to start at Manning Park (probably in June), hike to Mexico
(arriving in November I suppose), hitch-hike back to northern Washington,
snow-shoe to Hart's pass which is probably closed to traffic that time of
year...snow shoe another 37 miles to Manning Park (being careful to sweep
their snow-shoe prints as they cross the border at night), and then finally
return legally (sort of) via an established border crossing station.
Hmmm...that's kind of a pain in the ___.  Fortunately, it'll be 4:20 soon.
 Cheers.

Devon


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>wrote:

> Purely hypothetically, what would happen if a US citizen hiker entered
> Canada legally at a port of entry (say the Vancouver airport), was driven
> to Manning, BC, then walked to the border and continued onto the PCT
> southward?  Does the Canadian gov't monitor entries close enough to know if
> someone didn't leave (or at least, didn't leave a paper trail at a customs
> station?  Would the US gov't know if that hiker had entered from Canada
> instead of hiking northward from Hart's Pass, then backtracking?
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> I am thinking of writing a novel and using this scenario.  I would never
> participate in an illegal activity, nor would I encourage anyone else to do
> so.
> Mango
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