With our quickly approaching PCT thru-hike, we've been asked many questions by our friends, relatives, and coworkers. As you can imagine, people have been curious about the details and to a large extent with the basic things we tend to take for granted in our daily lives. People have asked us about our food resupply strategy, what gear we will take with us, if we're taking bear mace or even guns, about the trail itself, and similar questions. It's fun to answer these sorts of questions and makes me excited that people are curious about the details. Without intending to sound like an elitist, it's also fun to often see a level of shock when people hear some of our responses. We're not doing anything out of the ordinary for a thru-hiker or in many cases things I already do for short backpacking trips, but certainly we're doing things you wouldn't do in your normal life. After all, we are planning to walk almost 2,700 miles in 4.5 - 5 months. I don't think there's anything normal about that, but that's 100% the point.
Most commonly I've been asked about the trail itself; typical things like where does it start and stop, how long is it, what areas does it cross. Realizing that we won't have a chance to answer all the questions or speak to all of our friends before we go, I thought it'd be nice to provide some links to information on the trail. For those of you that are curious about the things we will see and what we will experience before we get there, you can check out the following links that provide a lot of good background information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_crest_trail
http://www.pcta.org/
A map can probably best provide a snapshot of our goal: to walk from Mexico to Canada through the wilderness in one continous line. The image below shows the path we hope to follow.
In the coming days, we hope to post some additional information shedding some light on our resupply strategy and the gear we will be taking with us.
-Andy
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