>>2017388>You know i honestly thought about just starting in tahoe as its only 20 miles away from me and just walking north, and then coming back and doing the split southThat's called flip-flop thru-hiking, it's pretty popular with the AT. Not sure how common it is with the PCT, but you can look up "flip flop PCT" for route suggestions.
If you first go NOBO from Tahoe you're going to have to delay your start for the snow to melt, but i guess one nice tradeoff is you can head back to do the SOBO section as the weather cools to fall