It may have become obvious that this post was coming. About a week ago the Pacific Crest Trail Association (The group who issued me my PCT permits) sent out an email. The email told people not to hike the PCT this year, and if they were already on the trail, they should stop immediately. The arguments were reasonable and things I had already been thinking about. Some of the stretches of the PCT are quite remote and there is very little water in the desert sections. If you were to contract COVID-19 at a resupply point, or from other hikers, it could require emergency resources to get you back to civilization and be extremely dangerous. Emergency resources I believe will be valuable to people not walking the PCT over the coming months.
So next year? Maybe. This was an incredibly perfect chance to do the hike for a couple of life reasons. Next year may be much harder to put everything on hold for 4 months. Until then we’ll just have to wait and see.
To all of you out there dealing with the current uncertainty; good luck, stay safe, and wash your hands!
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