[pct-l] PCT Elevation Gain / Loss Stats

[Jeffrey Olson]

Having used the guidebook for 20 years, I affirm the despair I feel when 
tired and the 220' up and 220' down rules.  Just another test of mettle, 
of being able to rise above lore and cursory understanding of the text 
and land it describes, and others perceptions.  Your planning is going 
to deconstruct in the first week... You'll learn SO MUCH...

We learn to read the topo map.  We learn how strong we are.  We learn we 
need to go sideways and blatt our bowels every 20 minutes. When you have 
diarrhea, do you always bury it???  Have any of you used leaves because 
you're shitting so often and you want to keep your impacting footprint 
to a minumum?  I found snow to be the best TP.  You don't have to bury 
it...

What a great time of life!

Jeffrey Olson
Rapid City, SD - retiring (what the hell does that mean?) in May...

On 3/5/2014 5:43 PM, Rob Langsdorf wrote:
> I have gone through the WP guidebook and noted that often in a two mile section between mile and elevation marks it is not unusual for the trail to go up 200' and back down 200' while the elevation marks in the WP guidebook would have indicated no change in elevation. When you add enough of these into your calculation you end up with a much greater elevation change than you get by just adding up the numbers form the WP guidebook.
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