[pct-l] Williamson attempting to regain unsupported PCT

[Brick Robbins]

I thought you had to walk past every white blaze for it to be a thru hike.

Oh wait, wrong trail.

:-)

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:53 PM, greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com> wrote:
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:16:50 -0700
>> From: "Bob Bankhead" <wandering_bob at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Williamson attempting to regain unsupported PCT
>> speedrecord
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>> In my opinion:
>>
>>
>> If you are going to play the record game, there must be a standard mileage
>> length or the results are not comparable with past or future efforts. None
>> of this "I did the whole trail in 42 days, but all of Oregon was closed
>> due
>> to active volcanoes and lava flows".
>>
>> If you just want to say you did a thru-hike, then yes, you hike whatever
>> miles of the trail are open at the time you are hiking said trail. If you
>> come to an officially designated trail closure, you leap-frog it; no foul.
>> Those closed miles are not part of the trail (this year). If that closure
>> re-opens before you complete the trail, you are not obligated to go back
>> and
>> pick it up. You hiked every mile of trail that was accessible to you at
>> the
>> time you reached it. On the other hand, leap-frogging to avoid snow, high
>> water, or something you personally aren't comfortable facing right now
>> still
>> obligates you to go back and complete those sections before ending your
>> hike
>> for the year in order to claim having done a thru-hike.
>>
>
> The most reasonable and rational response I think I've read so far on this.
>
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