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Pacific Crest Trail Data Book: Mileages, Landmarks, Facilities, Resupply Data, and Essential Trail Information for the Entire Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Pacific Crest Trail Data Book: Mileages, Landmarks, Facilities, Resupply Data, and Essential Trail Information for the Entire Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada

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The essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook for hiking and backpacking the PCT

If you want bare-bones information about the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail without all the long, detailed descriptions, the Pacific Crest Trail Data Book is exactly what you’re looking for. Based on data from the three comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebooks to the PCT, this book is filled with convenient, easy-to-read, at-a-glance tables. Compact and lightweight, with trail-tested features, it’s handy both on and off the trail. Use it for pre-trip planning for resupply stops; setting daily on-the-trail mileage goals by anticipating campsites, water sources, trail gradient, and facilities; and easily calculating distances between any two points on the trail. Whether you’re north- or south-bound, whether you’re hiking the entire PCT or just sections of it, the first step of your journey begins with this book.

ISBN-13: 9780899979014

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Wilderness Press

Publication Date: 12-08-2020

Pages: 128

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.40(d)

Series: Pacific Crest Trail

Benedict “Gentle Ben” Go thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 1996. To this day, memories of that life continue to make him smile. The sweet innocence of the unknown, the lessons still to be learned. He started on the PCT not fully knowing what to expect. It was the most challenging journey he had ever attempted. Since that time, Gentle Ben has been committed to updating the essential pocket guide to the trail. All of his book royalties are donated to the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s Jane and Flicka Endowment Fund, which helps to fund trail maintenance and promote trail use.

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INTRODUCTION

The Pacific Crest Trail Data Book contains a summary of the entire Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), covering a distance of 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada. The trail passes through three states: California, Oregon, and Washington. The PCT terrain varies from desert in Southern California to the mountains of the High Sierra in Central California to the Cascades in far Northern California and continuing through Oregon and Washington.

This book was created as an adjunct to Wilderness Press’s PCT guidebooks for planning, tracking, and as a quick reference on the trail. Trail information is comprised of landmarks, listed as they occur in a northerly direction, from Mexico to Canada. For each landmark, the following information is given: the mileage between points, the mileage from the Mexican border, its elevation, available facilities (such as water sources and post offices), and an occasional water alert when the next water source is more than 12 miles away.

This book provides:

  • An easy calculation of distances between any two points on the trail
  • A profile of the trail elevation changes
  • Assistance in preparing for hiking sections of the trail or the entire trail (a “thru hike”)
  • Assistance in establishing daily mileage goals while on the trail
  • The average angle of the trail in degrees between the previous landmark and the current landmark

Table of Contents

Introduction

California Snow Depth Measurements

Heading and Code Definitions

Resupply Data

On the Trail

  • Southern California
  • Central California
  • Northern California
  • Oregon
  • Washington

New Suiattle River Bridge Map and Route

Calendars

Addresses and Phone Numbers

Pacific Crest Trail Association

Pacific Crest Trail Association Membership Benefits

Jane and Flicka Endowment Fund