[pct-l] Should the date of the PCT days at Cascade Locks be changed?

[Rob Langsdorf]

Nabor J may not intend to be inviting the through hikers to attend. But the fact that the event is only a few weeks after people should be leaving the Bridge of the Gods tends to invite them to come. If the PCT days were held on the 1st weekend of August it would encourage people to be earlier. If it were held the 1st weekend of October it would be late enough to encourage people to flip to Canada and come back to Cascade Locks or to push through and finish the trail and then come back. But the date that it was held this year encourages the party crowd (which has been spending too many zero days) to have a few more zero days before pushing for Canada.
 
          Mataguay Connector


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From: Jackie McDonnell <yogihikes at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Should the date of the PCT days at Cascade Locks be changed?


The person who organizes PCT Days is Nabor J.  He asked me to post the
following email to the list.

Yogi
www.pcthandbook.com

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"PCT DAYS is not the Kick Off, which is an event geared toward
through-hikers.  This has been a point of confusion for some people.  PCT
DAYS is a gathering of the outdoor recreation community and the businesses
that support it.  The date of PCT DAYS should have no bearing on when and
where people are on the trail.  Whether or not they choose to attend the
event, people need to consider that adverse conditions can begin anytime
after September 1st in the Cascade Range and be prepared for their own
accountability."

Jason Waicunas, Outdoor Viewfinder
Photography Instructor & Oregon Registered Guide
oviewfinder at gmail.com
503.705.6769
http://oviewfinder.com/


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Rob Langsdorf <sdscpcts at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>    I have been wondering what the impact of having the PCT days event at
> Cascade Locks on the weekend after Labor Day weekend may have had on
> encouraging PCT hikers to be late in reaching the boarder?
>
>    One post said, "Taka attended the PCT Days, and then headed towards
> the Canadian border."
>
>    He was the Japanese hiker who was stuck at Milk Creek this year due to
> heavy snows. I wonder how many other hikers were stopped or delayed by the
> snow this year because they went to the PCT days event and then tried to
> hike to Canada.
>
>    What if the PCT days were held the week before Labor Day? Would this
> encourage hikers to either go faster or to skip north to the locks, do the
> hike to Canada and then flip back to pick up the segments that they had
> missed?
>
>      Mataguay Connector Rob
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