I fully understand, Andrea ... I expect most following the PCT-L feel, literally, for these folks much as you, even those of us who have not "been there". I'm a wanna-be thu-hiker for 2014, and, trust me, if I make it to your good care, it will be more like at Sept. 1, or prior, rather than Oct. 1. I will NOT "dink" around much. -Walljito