[pct-l] SoCal closures

[marmot marmot]

Hey everyone read Yogi's book with many ideas about hitching. If you aren't thru-hiking that's different. But the thru-hikers  trail each year becomes what you hike --that includes the road walks. Sometimes you have to walk around snow --fires--closures--avalanches. That's the trail.  Marmot

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On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:03 PM, enyapjr at comcast.net wrote:

>> The PCT through most of the southern San Jacintos appears to be closed for
> 
>> the duration of the hiking season. Are most people just planning to hitch
> to 
>> Idyllwild from Hwy. 74?
> 
> 
>> 
>> The closure from the Powerhouse Fire appears to have ended on the last day
> 
>> of February. Does anyone have more info on that?
> 
> 
>> 
>> What other current re-routes/closures are affecting this stretch?
> 
> Regarding the Mountain Fire (Desert Divide) closure from Cedar Springs Trail to
> Tahquitz Valley Trail - personally, since I am "thru-hiking", I will walk around the 
> closure...  There are some phone/power line roads plus some 'trails' mostly used
> by MTBers that might be utilized to be off the highways as much as possible -
> hopefully an alternate route will be scouted out before thru season (I've heard that
> Halfmle might be doing that soon - per 'rumor').  It's 'your' hike, therefore your
> decision whether to hitch or not.  ;-)
> 
> Re. the Powerhouse Fire, per Anitra Kass (PCTA SoCal rep) on Feb. 6th: "The
> 
> closure order is going to get extended.  We haven’t even been granted 
> access to 
> assess the trail yet because the danger of soil moving is 
> pretty high.  Also without 
> rain, we
> don’t know yet what the soils will do without plants to keep it in 
> place.  It will 
> not be open for 2014."
> But, there still might be a 'slim' chance that Angeles NF will reconsider(?) and open 
> 'part' of it - but I doubt there is any way that all of it will be opened.
> Not to offend any FS individuals, but the USFS bureaucracy is notorious for being
> 'late' in updating fire & fire closure statuses, plus they go overboard in protecting the
> general public in those areas, too.
> 
> Keep checking the PCTA trail conditions and closures web page for updates as thru
> season approaches, 
> <http://www.pcta.org/discover-the-trail/trail-conditions-and-closures/sections/southern-california/>.
> 
> Happy trails!!!
> Jim (PITA)
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