Thru-guide - Pacific Crest Trail

imported
#1

What is the favorite data-book of the PCT? Any recomendations?

Slick B

#2

…“The Pacific Crest Trail Data Book”.

Also, the Wilderness Press PCT Guidebooks are good, especially the maps.

Finally, Yogi’ PCT Handbook is highly recommended for additional trail info.

Happy Holidays,
Squatch

Squatch

#3

You ask as if there was a choice. This isn’t the AT were there are several guides available. So I echo what our offical PCT filmaker above had to say. After all, those are your only real options.

Miner

#4

I haven’t seen it yet, but there is a new map/data publication called The PCT Atlas which has just come out. It seems to getting very good initial reviews for being clear and user-friendly. Might be worth a look…let us know if you do.

markv

#5

I had a few of my food/map boxes lost by the Postal Service. Luckily I had expected this. I overlaped my three different guides (Yogi pages, guidebook/maps, and databook). By overlaping I alway had at least one of the three. So when I got to the Dinsmores in Skykomish,WA, I found that my package was not there but I had my data pages for the next section. One guide has a proceedure for separating data and shipping it but I found it to be flawed because if your box was lost you don’t have ANY maps, water info or logistical info. That would completely freak out most hikers. I hiked mainly solo so I had a few nerve racking moments when I was looking for good watersources without maps, yogi pages and even sometimes without databook pages. It also sucks not having maps when in a town or when you are at a road crossing at night and you don’t know weither to go left or right to find where the trail resumes. I got lucky and I used some serious brainpower/logic to find water and the trail at times. I always thought the PCT was easy to find. I also always kept a positive attitude when in a jam and kept the phrase,“not all who wander are lost” in the back of my head. I never had a compass either. In general I would never recommend that someone hike without maps, it’s actually really stupid. Overall I liked the datapages the best. Datapages are light, very useful, and most importantly $10. I also went ahead and bought the tom Harrison JMT maps. The JMT maps were $20, I found out really quick that I didn’t need them mainly because of the low snow year. Those maps will be nice if I decide to do the JMT in the future. I estimate that with my lost boxes, I hiked almost the whole state of Oregon with just data pages, and I hiked a couple of hundred miles in nor. WA without anything at all but my brain. I am a firm believer that you gain massive amounts of confidence and personal growth while existing outside your comfort zone.

Spigot

#6

The PCT guidebook maps rule!!!

Sorry, I just feel a deep, true, real respect right now that I feel like overemphasizing.

Hans Berg