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color=#0000ff size=2>Was it just me, or did anyone else suddenly hear a BeeGees
tune in their head when they read this subject line</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>How Steep is the Trial - is the trail - How steep is the
trail - I really want to know - Cause I'm walking many miles this year,
thinking of thru . . . </FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> pct-l-bounces@backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@backcountry.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Kathi<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Saturday, March 01, 2008 10:54 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
pct-l@backcountry.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [pct-l] How steep is the
trail<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT size=+1>Hello PCT-l friends,<BR>I have a maybe silly question.
How steep is the trail on the PCT? I have had most of my backpacking expeditions
in the Sierra's and have found myself on steep areas but never on a "trail" to
where I felt I needed an ice axe... even in very snowy conditions. Including the
time I hiked in with "no" snow and woke up with my tent buried in snow and had
to slog out the next morning. I have always been able to find another way on a
not so steep slop, even sliding slowly on my sleeping pad with my heels dug in
to the snow like an inch worm (that was always off trail in an unusual
situation). Now if I went off trail to explore I felt I needed one. If the trail
is also traveled by horses it seems it can't be that steep? Am I wrong? I am the
type who always find that easier way to go even if it means going out of my
way.<BR><BR>I am proud to say that I have decided that 2010 is my year to thru
the PCT. Now of course all I can think about it the trail.<BR><BR>Thanks for any
insight!<BR>Kathi<BR></FONT></BODY></HTML>