The following is a guest post which originally appeared on the Facebook PCT 2017 group page, courtesy of Daniel Winsor. Daniel’s post addresses the challenges of creek crossings, and near-misses of two 2017 PCT hikers on the Mammoth to Sonora section.
his section was difficult, there’s no way around that fact. Creeks and rivers are swollen, making trail crossings almost entirely unusable. But there is almost always a safe way to get through it. Let me make one thing perfectly clear: Mammoth to Sonora Pass is NOT unavoidably dangerous. ...
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