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<DIV><A href="mailto:ksalmon@wesleyan.edu">ksalmon@wesleyan.edu</A> writes:
<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I
would really like to take my hammock on the PCT, but I am concerned that<BR>I
will not be able to pitch it in certain areas. How concerned should I be?
Thoughts on bivouac bags for the PCT?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>Switchback replies: Several years ago at Kennedy Meadows I asked some
thru hikers about their hammocks. They said they liked them and had no
problems. Sometimes they would pitch them on the ground when they could
not use a tree, etc.<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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