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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh, thanks, now I have THIS running thru my head
for several hundred miles. I survived the herd thread only to be brought down by
THIS!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sweet Goat mama</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=billbatch@cox.net href="mailto:billbatch@cox.net">Bill Batchelor</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pct-l@backcountry.net
href="mailto:pct-l@backcountry.net">pct-l@backcountry.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pct-l] How steep is the
trail</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=468330919-01032008><FONT face=Arial
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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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=468330919-01032008><FONT face=Arial
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> <A
href="mailto:pct-l-bounces@backcountry.net">pct-l-bounces@backcountry.net</A>
[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>
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