Hiking the PCT is certainly an amazing accomplishment. As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors hiking and biking, the PCT has some interesting politics.

Hiking the PCT is certainly an amazing accomplishment. As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors hiking and biking, the PCT has some interesting politics. The PCT expands or gets rerouted and the land that is taken over goes from being open to mountain bikes to closed. The forest service took a short term moratorium on biking and has basically made it permanent; yet in parts of the Sierras (especially around tahoe) mountain bike groups take it upon themselves to maintain parts of the PCT.