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As an experienced, but intermediate hiker, we took a mixed group through the MD/VA sections of the Appalachian Trail. The dramatic elevation changes were kille
by bmelton 12y ago
As an experienced, but intermediate hiker, we took a mixed group through the MD/VA sections of the Appalachian Trail. The dramatic elevation changes were killer, and I think we topped out at around 12 miles in a single day.
What are the trail accommodations for the PCT? The AT has wonderful, but primitive shelters along the trail, and spring water at some of the points which made the whole affair a LOT more manageable than it would otherwise have been, even though we went in a cold, rainy November.
- gwright 12y agoThere are only a handful of shelters on the PCT and water is more scarce than the AT. These are a couple of reasons I tell people that the PCT is logistically more difficult than the AT, while the AT is physically more difficult than the PCT. Due to the pace required to complete the PCT, camping locations are generally located by time rather than location. That is, towards the end of the day, you just keep walking until you find a comfortable place to set up camp.