[pct-l] referring to points on the PCT

[Susan Virnig]

Exactly what David Hough is referring to here is already available in eTrails, which I love.

Based on the old Wilderness Press guidebooks — which I’ve been using since I started section hiking the PCT in 1977 — it has tons of info available on geology, botany, history and just plain quirky stuff, which you can click on or ignore if you’re not interested.

Each section starts from zero, which I LOVE.  Much easier to track, especially for us section hikers, than knowing we’re 1,387.6 miles from Mexico.  Though, of course, I carry my own printed out Halfmile maps as a back-up in case that awful creek accident happens with my phone.  So far I’ve been lucky.

Anyway, eTrails is free.  Go to the app store and download it.  Many, many, many thanks to David Money Harris for creating it.

—Susan from Spokane, aka Sunshine


> On Jul 30, 2018, at 9:37 PM, David Hough reading PCT-L <pctl at oakapple.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Because the PCT changes from year to year, representing points of interest
> by their distance from Mexico is guaranteed to cause problems when different
> people are trying to coordinate with different printed and electronic data
> sets.    People who through-hike once and get all their data at the same
> time might not be aware of that.
> 
> Life would be simpler if within each section, points of interest were
> identified by distance from the beginning of the section.     Then that
> identification would only change when the trail changed in that section.
> The "data book" format pages and the maps could still indicate the distance
> from Mexico as well as the distance from the beginning of the section.
> 
> Thus the Dog Trail junction in Castle Crags would probably always be
> TRP7 instead of TR1506 one year and something else the next year.
> 
> If there were any chance of confusion between Campo and Ashland or
> Donner Pass and Rainy Pass, one would also have to indicate the state
> C, O, or W.
> 
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