[pct-l] Northbounders

[Brick Robbins]

Muk Muk and UB have a great blog post about their exit to Stehekin
today and a video of them hiking in the snow.

http://mexicotocanada2013.wordpress.com/2013/10/

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Sean Nordeen <sean.nordeen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Back in 2009, at the very end of September while in Stehekin we saw that
> rain was expected over the next several days. But we had been afraid to try
> to wait out the incoming storm after reading about the waves of winter
> storms that came in early October of 2007 that shut the PCT down with
> several feet of snow.  So we pushed out in what turned into off and on snow
> over the next few days.
>
> On Oct.1, the snow started coming down hard just as we got into our last
> camp; in amounts beyond what we had seen thus far.  The next morning we
> still had to hike over the highest point in Washington to get to the
> border.  At times as the snow came down I had to probe with my trekking
> poles for where the edge of the trail was as it was almost white out
> conditions.  At other times I could barely see a slight dark line (caused
> by a slight depression in the snow) where the trail was buried in the snow
> while wearing high contrast sunglasses.  The lone hiker that came in behind
> us that night into Manning said our tracks in the snow were almost
> completely filled after 3 hours.
>
> And then the weather cleared for another week and the snow melted off.  We
> could have waited it out in Stehekin and missed it entirely.  You just
> never know.  Which is why I tell everyone to finish before October if at
> all possible.
>
> If the current snow forecast is as bad as people say, then I agree that
> they probably are doing the right thing by not hiking out into it.  But at
> the same time, unless another storm is behind this one, the snow may melt
> off and good weather may return for a awhile longer.  It wouldn't be the
> first time snow came in late September only to turn to nice weather in
> early October.
>
> -Miner
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