From pctl at oakapple.net  Wed Dec  1 09:57:06 2021
From: pctl at oakapple.net (David Hough reading PCT-L)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 07:57:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [pct-l] first one to get to Canada - loses!
Message-ID: <202112011557.1B1Fv6fv020914@server-f.oakapple.net>


They say the first step is the hardest, but the last step might be worse.
Re-entry into "normal" life?      It's the same on the Camino de Santiago.
For the hard cores, the last step of the hike is the first step of planning
the next hike.

If you thought your hikes were hard, just think about managing insulin on
the trail.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/30/santa-cruz-mountains-woman-conquers-legendary-pacific-crest-trail-in-solo-hike/


And there are harder sports than hiking - where would these survivors have been
without modern communication electronics?

https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/news/two-canyoneers-rescued-and-one-fatality-at-the-exit-of-heaps-canyon-in-zion-national-park.htm

On the other hand, sometimes there are happy endings -

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/us/70-year-old-woman-oldest-yosemite-el-capitan/index.html

Especially if you are Alex Honnold's mom.
It must be in the genes.