Has anyone ever pulled a golf club caddy-cart behind him to carry water, etc, while hiking in the desert area of Southern PCT. Is it permissable to use one on the Trail?
Yellow Buzzard
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I think a golf cart definitely violates the LNT (Leave No Trace) concept. Might as well haul a tiller behind you.
I live in Southern Nevada and hike alot in the Potosi and Red ROck areas, which are brutally hot in the summer (120+). The extra water weight can be alot, but the minimalization of cold weather gear and rain gear offsets this nicely. Plus, I think your deltoids and traps would get offly sore hauling a cart behind you in a hiking situation (hiking isn’t a golf course with graded or paved paths to pull it on)
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airferret
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#3
Thanks Airferret! Guess it was just wishful thinking. Anything to lighten the load!
Yellow Buzzad
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#4
All wheeled mechanisms, except wheelchairs, are prohibited in wilderness areas, as a general rule. So, depending on what you mean by “desert area” (do chaparral and coastal sage count?), that gives, what, some or all of Hauser, San Jacinto, San Gorgonio, Cucamonga, San Gabriel, and Domelands Wilderness areas? There might be a seperate rule against wheeled, er, “vehicles” on any portion of the PCT in a national forest (I know there is in some national forests, but I don’t know that it applies to all of them through which the PCT passes), for that matter. (And always remember: in California, a National Forest needn’t contain trees!)
Craig Milo Rogers
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Other people manage to get across that stretch; as I recall the trail guides supply good counsel. But don’t do THAT!
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