[pct-l] Guidebooks. Help a brotha (sister?) out!

[Will M]

Just thinking out of the box here but I can see a point where gps units will
be lighter, have great battery life and even offer MP3 players and phone
serivce.  Perhaps I have this backwards and I phones will have "real gps "
features with excellent battery life.

In either case, a gps type guide book with  camp sites, updated water
reports, local shuttle numbers, reports on snow levels and trail closures
would be the killer guidebook.  If kindles and other ebooks prove to be
rugged and last long, I could see having a guidebook on kindle would be
great. I'm generally not a tech head but I can see this happening very soon.

Regular guiideebooks are already available as mentioned earlier and Erik the
Blacks books seem to be evolving into the guidook of choice.  I was very
impressed with the changes he made form the first edition to the second.

For another example of popular guidebooks, check out Wingfoots AT guide.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Candy Smith <candyjsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Hello All,
> >
>
> I'm a student at Green Mountain College in  Vermont...but an Oregon
> resident, and I've hiked sections of the PCT pretty regularly my entire
> life. I'm working on planning my "senior project" for my self-designed
> major
> (Adventure Recreation Writing), which will likely consist of a thru hike of
> the pct, and a guide book or novel to be written about the experience. I'll
> be doing my thru hike in the 2010 season. (II'm so lucky to be getting
> college credit to hike!(
>
> I've tried to put some feelers out with little response (on facebook, etc),
> as to what people would like to see in a guide book that isn't there. I've
> read most of the major books that exist out there...but I'm curious if
> anyone has suggestions of things that WEREN'T in the guide books that they
> wish were there. I'm trying to create something that will actually be
> useful
> to future hikers...so...anyone have anything they wish they would have been
> able to find in a guidebook? any suggestions about what you NEED from a
> guidebook?
>
> As this is both a literary and recreational quest for me, I'll be spending
> the next year doing some extensive research, and I'd love to have some
> feedback from people such as yourselves who actually know/love/respect the
> trail, instead of just my faculty advisor.
>
> Your input is greatly requested. If you don't want to respond via the
> listserv, please feel free to shoot me a personal email.
>
> Thanks y'all, and happy trails.
>
> -Candy
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