2023-06-01, 09:50 AM
(2023-05-31, 05:49 PM)MojaveGeek Wrote: The PCT nobos started long ago but a lot of them are skipping the High Sierra part of the route for now - I read a bunch of their hiking blogs, I guess wishing I were there. The SF Chronicle said "Want to hike the Sierra? Best time will be the second week of August". Which is, coincidently, when we'll be there (I pushed that trip back a bit to let more snow melt). Other trips are Montana (out of Bozeman) in July, and WA (Olympic Peninsula and South Cascades) for much of September.
Well as this year goes the second week of august may be the mosquito apocalypse, fire season, none or both.
(I have no qualms showing my desdain of the nobos. They crowd the approaches to mountains, leave plenty of trace and hoard permits. I wish they redirected the PCT through the central valley)
WA and Montana, so awesome.