Plans
I got approved for another Mexico to Canada PCT permit, this one for 2019. I'm not going to attempt the whole thing, but instead plan on starting a little south of where I ended this spring and reach Echo Lake in Desolation Wilderness--a place where Lola and I hiked a few years ago when we thru hiked the Tahoe Rim Trail. It's easier to get a PCT permit for the whole trail than to try to get one for the John Muir Trail...210 miles of highly-coveted trail, almost impossible to get permits for. I know....I've tried about 60 times! The JMT is 210 miles from Mt Whitney to Yosemite NP. The PCT is co-located along 185 or so of those miles. It's a bit unethical to do this stretch camouflaged as a PCT thru hiker, as it denies someone else a permit, but I made sure to apply for an undesirable start date in the middle of May because it doesn't matter when my real official start date at the Mexican border is since I won't even be there. What I plan on doing is overla