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Anonymous Fri 11 Nov 2022 02:52:10 No.2494610 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2495298 >>2496746 >>2496747 >>2496790 >>2496820 >>2498563 >>2500045

I just signup and planned for the PCT next year with my friends.
Any helpful tips /out/?
What Equipment you recommend?
What not take?
Any smaller thru-hike trails to train in the Cal-Oregon area?
Is this a mistake for a 6'' tall 265 pounds SoCal dude?
Do I need to train?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Nov 2022 03:32:37 No.2494624 Report

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>Do I need to train?

Yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Nov 2022 19:07:25 No.2495298 Report

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>>2494610
>Is this a mistake for a 6'' tall 265 pounds SoCal dude
Nah

>Do I need to train
Nah

Herbs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Nov 2022 23:16:10 No.2496746 Report

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>>2494610
you're too fat, going to chafe and quit early. don't waste your friends' time.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 15 Nov 2022 23:26:23 No.2496747 Report

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>>2494610
Try to lose ~50-60 pounds before you start anon, your knees/back will thank you. I was same height ~270-280 and its a world of difference even hovering around 215 now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Nov 2022 01:41:11 No.2496790 Report

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>>2494610
>Any helpful tips /out/?
>What Equipment you recommend?
Unironically go to Reddit. There are subs there dedicated to thruhiking and have posters who have actually thruhiked long distance trails. r/ultralight, r/thruhiking, and r/backpacking have better info than /out/, but you can’t call people niggers or faggots.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Nov 2022 02:19:58 No.2496820 Report

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>>2494610
>Is this a mistake for a 6'' tall 265 pounds SoCal dude?
Big guys do finish thru hiking trails but you need more body knowledge than a fitter guy just because shit can go wrong worse and faster.
Points of failure will be feet in general and knees
Can you do at least 15 miles on the closest section of the PCT to you multiple days in a row? You could lose a lot of weight by then if you take it seriously today but you're going to have a harder time than all your friends and you're going to need to want it more than they do to stay motivated, all that said you could prepare all this time and just have to quit at some point which isn't the worst thing in the world, you'll learn a lot even if you only make it a portion of the way

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Nov 2022 09:35:03 No.2498192 Report

Quoted By: >>2500465

Some tips: Don't carry a stove. Don't bring a knife that isn't tiny. Training is helpful but not necessary. Don't bring to many clothes. Go do it GL.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 20 Nov 2022 02:06:09 No.2498563 Report

Quoted By: >>2498564 >>2499961

>>2494610
I'm training for the PCT right now. Mon-Friday I walk 5-10 miles per day. On the weekends I load my pack up with 30lbs of gear and walk ~5 miles, focusing on hills. I get a lot of weird looks walking around town with my pack. People must think I'm homeless
Did you get a permit? I wasnt able to get one. Gonna do it anyways though, fuck a permit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 20 Nov 2022 02:06:44 No.2498564 Report

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>>2498563
>~5 miles
*5+ miles

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 03:24:08 No.2499961 Report

Quoted By: >>2499987

>>2498563
How exactly do they enforce a permits when the PCT is just a collection of trails stuck together. You could just say you are dayhiking a state trail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 04:55:34 No.2499987 Report

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>>2499961
>How exactly do they enforce a permit
choke points/designated camping areas

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 05:54:15 No.2500012 Report

Quoted By: >>2500014 >>2500047

Thinking that you live in a free society when you need to be permitted to go for a walk. We need to go back. Fucking cattle for “humans”. Do what you need.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 05:55:33 No.2500014 Report

Quoted By: >>2500017

>>2500012
>We need to go back
you*

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 05:58:28 No.2500017 Report

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>>2500014
I try, but I run into REI 30yo mid-life crisis women. Fuck that shit, burn it all down. Even in the Yukon you still have UPS flying cardboard boxes over your head. It hate what they did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 07:19:14 No.2500044 Report

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If I hike the PCT, will I find some frens?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 07:31:19 No.2500045 Report

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>>2494610
Hike in the night and sleep in the day in the desert.
Expect that some sections up north will have to be skipped due to fires, and plan accordingly.
Find out which sections got burned up this last season, so you know which ones didn’t get burned, and plan on those possibly getting burned this next year

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 07:34:47 No.2500047 Report

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>>2500012
If there was no permit system it would be overcrowded as fuck and ruined, along with countless more evacs than there already are.
Most people are dumb cattle desu

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 07:57:08 No.2500058 Report

Quoted By: >>2500059

>>2500047
It’s the principle that matters. You give power an inch, and they take a mile. I don’t want to need a license to be in the NF. They already limit it to 14 days. Every Friday thousands of diseased idiots invade the forest and leave a weeks worth of plastic waste on the ground, and drive back to the city by Sunday night. And never ending cycle, until it gets cold enough that they decide to stay in their electricity heated suburban homes(It’s 50 degrees F in Phoenix, mighty cold!) But even now there are more and more during winter, let alone the summer. I want to blow up the fucking highway, it pisses me off how many of them use the formerly pristine forest as a fucking product. Do not move to AZ even the rural mountains, you’ll want to fucking blow your brains out!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:01:57 No.2500059 Report

Quoted By: >>2500061 >>2500063

>>2500058
>I don’t want to need a license to be in the NF
too bad pal, there needs to be access control or the commons will be destroyed, it's not a question of if but when
you've got another two to three years of post-covid outdoor rebound before things get back to baseline and even then, so long as there are people within driving distance, there has to be access control
simple as

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:10:12 No.2500061 Report

Quoted By: >>2500066

>>2500059
You rat-brained retard, how can you not understand that the problem is not simply the volume, but rather the content of the character. They have always outnumbered my community by millions and that will only get worse. What matters is that it is THEM in the forest not US. If it’s a lottery like hunting tags, there will be nobody to pick up the trash. Reasonable “ access control” is a 30-06 round to the head. There is no negotiation when they can just outnumber me. They need to not want to go to the National Forest, or not even able to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:12:54 No.2500063 Report

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>>2500059
Also, my childhood home’s backyard is National Forest, the largest Ponderosa Pine Forest in the world. I’m not going to let it be something that can be allowed or disallowed. It’s a birthright of its inhabitants and caretakers. It’s not a federal entity that can be sold as a product to pay for social programs. Fuck it all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:17:25 No.2500066 Report

Quoted By: >>2500067

>>2500061
>not even able to.
Hence the restrictive permitting system, retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:23:33 No.2500067 Report

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>>2500066
Retard, if there is a restrictive permit system, only the worst will be in the forest. They have done this, it never works, only the most populace and richest are in the forest, and they still do the same shit. The only escape is to drive down a Forest Road for 2 hours to be free of their destruction. It’s a physical barrier. And that’s the way it should be. When the federal government sees an opportunity for profit, they will market to the most profitable clientele, the most destructive suburban weekenders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:32:33 No.2500068 Report

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>>2500067
>only the most populace and richest are in the forest, and they still do the same shit.
>same shit
The total number is limited, which is the point.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:37:00 No.2500069 Report

Quoted By: >>2500070 >>2500436

>>2500068
Retards goals:
#1: Fuck the forest, let’s let it get constantly vandalized and covered in trash.
#2:Limit Access to the forest for those that will not degrade nature.
#3 Profit.
#4 More irrational government control?!??

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:39:04 No.2500070 Report

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>>2500069
lay off the peyote

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:42:12 No.2500071 Report

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>>2500070
I haven’t even touched a drug in my life. When I walk down the forest road and come across a campsite on the side that has trash strewn everywhere, it makes my blood boil. That’s what happens the first time. By the 100th time in three years I’m a terrorist. I just don’t fucking care anymore. And to think they want to build a college here. I’ll die first.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:43:38 No.2500072 Report

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>>2500071
just because you live in a rural area doesn't make your mental illness /out/ related

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:48:32 No.2500073 Report

Quoted By: >>2500075

>>2500072
I hope you die in a flash flood like those 9 Mexicans those years ago. Stay the fuck away. Every generation has seen it get worse and worse, and they did nothing. I don’t even give a shit about fossil fuels or greenhouse gasses. I just want my grandchildren to be able to see the unique beauty of nature that I saw without the shit I see today. Most of you will never understand, because you are likely one of them that come to destroy.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Nov 2022 08:55:14 No.2500075 Report

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>>2500073

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Nov 2022 03:21:21 No.2500436 Report

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>>2500069
>complains too many people are allowed to go and shit up the place
>also complains about muh government control implementing permits meant to limit the number of people shitting up the place
So wtf do you even want then, cuz those positions are contradictory.
You just wanna complain?
You want no permits and more people shitting up the place?
Or you just wanna be the sole one deciding who is worthy?
>totally pro-freedom and not authoritarian

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Nov 2022 04:03:53 No.2500446 Report

Quoted By: >>2500527

All American big trails are fucking shit now, full of pretentious douchebags, crowded horrendously, toilet paper and shit everywhere, lack of care with food causes bear danger, etc... Go do Te Araroa or some of the other long trails overseas that aren't full of faggots yet, you'll be walking on roads and some shitter tracks but at least it will be an actual adventure and not a procession of niggers thinking they are hot shit for lumping ultralight packs around on perfectly graded switchbacks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Nov 2022 05:05:21 No.2500465 Report

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>>2498192
>Don't carry a stove

Kill yourself ultralightnigger

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Nov 2022 11:32:29 No.2500527 Report

Quoted By: >>2500924

>>2500446
>All American big trails are fucking shit now, full of pretentious douchebags, crowded horrendously
False. Just the AT and PCT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Nov 2022 01:21:35 No.2500924 Report

Quoted By: >>2501102

>>2500527
>Only 2/3 bro

Buddy I talked to did CDT last year and said it was a bit better but starting to turn to shit too. You have to exit America to escape these people ruining everything.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Nov 2022 11:19:52 No.2501102 Report

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>>2500924
There are others besides the "Normie Triple Crown"
The North Country Trail (4,800 miles) has very little hiker traffic except in a few spots. This map shows other long-distance trails that have a small fraction of crowds as the normie AT.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Nov 2022 06:03:49 No.2501555 Report

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Who else here preparing to hike the PCT this year?

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