I'm a big fan of backpacking and longer trails. The PCT has long been one of my dreams (as anyone who reads those posts knows). I've also loved California's Coastal wilderness areas too since my college days in the early 1980s (see, for example, from April):
http://www.mudncrud.com/forums/index.php?topic=1582.0I was surprised and impressed to see Cruxluv's post in her thread where she discussed her dreams of hiking long trails. Finally, I know Gavin and Alacia love backpacking and long trails too, and of course they are lucky enough to work in a field they are passionate about (birds).
All of this came together through a subject I learned of some time ago, a proposed "Condor Trail," which would traverse north/south through all of the wilderness areas of California's central coast. I thought it was only a theory until the trip we took in April. I met a hiker on that trip who told me more.
And I just learned that there is a website devoted to the trail, a very nicely laid out web site. Here it is:
http://www.condortrail.com/Even though the trail doesn't yet exist as a whole, I would so dearly love to hike the whole thing. In fact, I think I need a sponsor to pay me to hike it. At 16 miles a day, it would take only 25 days. At $1,000.00 per day that would be only $25,000.00. I can take it in payments. Who's in?