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Buck,
Looking through your website — an incredible portfolio. I am really impressed. And to think that I tried in my early days to live off the land by fishing in No Cal rivers. It didn’t work for long, so I took up backpacking …….
I’m retired now and have been looking at the Oregon hikes. I’m especially interested in the one you did from Highway 78 to Drinkwater, the last one that Ross Eginton wrote up for the DTA but never proofed. I downloaded your maps for that, but I am wondering if you have a line of GPS locations that cover that territory. Even if it’s not very much detailed, whatever you have would help me out. I need to go up there May to September. Let me know if you can give me that list.
Reading about all you’ve done, I wondered what you could do to top all that! Then I remembered Ray Jardine and how he set up his next through hike after his last PCT. The story I heard was, he wanted to cross Antarctica coast to coast and set a “Fastest Time”!
Steve Tabor
desert609@aol.com
Thank you Steve! I think you should be able to download a track in kml format as referenced in the following paragraph. There are free online options to convert to gpx of necessary.
Good luck!
Buck
“View Desert Trail: Warm Springs Segment in a larger map where can download the .kml file if you want and convert it for use with most GPS units.”
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=205719422215404012799.0004e2748137d1b1c31ea&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=43.443862,-118.17873&spn=0.678435,0.203034&source=embed
If that doesn’t work “buck-30” should have the whole route here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1VEH7GE_RQl1o04_98i-VCk-KI9AYNKsw?usp=drive_open
Hi. I just read your “Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.” I really enjoyed the read. It gives a grand illustration of the hiking community and the generosity Americans are capable of. Long distance walking is more lonely in the UK, also mainly much shorter.
There is one surprising connection with a book I read many years ago. You record a bus ride where a mature lady talks loudly about her fun with her new partner.
I don’t know if you have heard of A. Wainwright. He created a series of beautiful guides to walking in the English Lake District mountains. Just before World War 2 he walked the Pennines and wrote “A Pennine Journey”, which was eventually published decades later.
Wainwright describes an evening in a pub and writes of what he overhears in surprising detail for the times!
Hi Andy,
I’m glad you enjoyed the book. I’m unfamiliar with A. Wainwright. That’s an interesting coincidence!
Enjoy those UK hikes. I hiked the South Downs way many years ago and it was a memorable and fun experience.