[pct-l] Campo to Manning on foot: 19 days (!)

[Carl Siechert]

Nice find, DP! But you make it sound like some herculean effort. It's only 3
miles/hour (albeit with no breaks for meals, sleeping, and other niceties of
trail slackerdom).

Btw, for those speed demons who don't have time to follow David's
instructions, here's a direct link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=campo,+ca&daddr=manning+park,+british+columbia&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=40.980935,-119.930755&sspn=22.549221,28.432617&ie=UTF8&ll=41.046217,-118.608398&spn=22.527107,28.432617&z=5

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:29 PM, David Plotnikoff <david at emeraldlake.com>wrote:

> Hello from a longtime list lurker.
>
> Having a few weeks to kill before getting back on the trail at Walker
> Pass leads to some silly business. To wit:
>
> Go to www.google.com
> Choose: "maps"
> Choose: "get directions"
> Enter: From: "Campo, CA" to "Manning Park, British Columbia"
> Be sure and specify in the pulldown "WALKING" (as opposed to driving)
>
> The resulting route -- and speed -- will amuse you mightily. One
> pictures the roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote tearing through the desert
> like a couple of thru-hikers living on massive quantities of crank
> and Red Bull.
>
> Tattoo Joe? Eric D.? Scott? Are you guys hipped to this?
>
>