#section hiking

[pcttrailsidereader]

Did You Know?

On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law. This law created the National Wilderness Preservation System to protect undeveloped land, "retaining its primeval character and influence" with "outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation." The Wilderness Act remains one of the world's longest standing acts of legislation for wilderness. The Act has been noticed by other countries as a way to protect their own wild places, biodiversity and ecosystems. No small testament to the power of protecting our most wild places not just in the United States but throughout the world.

Near Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness

It seems to me that if you have thru hiked the Pacific Crest Trail sights and sounds, landmarks and monuments get seen, heard, passed through and in some cases passed over. Section hikers on the other hand may have a similar experience to thru hikers but likely given the nature of sectioning may allow for lingering longer along the way.

Whether or not you are or know a thru hiker or you are or know a section hiker did you know the Pacific Crest Trail passes through fifty wilderness areas (both federal and state). More than any other National Scenic Trail in the United States. From fifteen identified wilderness areas in 1964 to fifty today, sixty years later, the importance of these lands is obvious. Acknowledging and protecting these spaces really hits anyone who has the opportunity to visit and/or pass through. Here are a some that you may have visited or heard about from south to north on the PCT; Hauser, Anza-Borrego, John Muir, Desolation, Marble Mountain, Three Sisters, Goat Rocks, and Pasayten.

Across three states these wilderness areas are a tribute to the importance of protecting large forests and watersheds that together help combat climate change. These spaces not only offer safe refuges for threatened plants and animals but offer a gateway for humans to connect more deeply with nature. Finally, many wilderness areas intersect and envelope indigenous peoples' ancestral lands. Taking into account the treasure these spaces hold as homelands for these native people.

Sixty years on the Wilderness Act is a shining piece of legislation that has evolved over six decades. As time as gone by the protected lands have grown from 9.1 million acres to over 111 million acres. The Pacific Crest Trail has enjoyed a great benefit thanks to the Wilderness Act.

If you didn't know it before, take some time to find out more about the wilderness areas all along the PCT. You can explore them even if it is a day hike. You will not be disappointed. In a these times when we question so many things including the choices our leaders make, we can be proud of the fact that sixty years later we still recognize the importance of wilderness. In this sixtieth year of existence protecting wilderness for generations to come is essential as long as we do not lose sight of why, as a nation, we value these places so deeply.

[tiffanyachings]

Matching T-Shirts for You and Your Weirdly Codependent Cousin

based on this excellent post by @casgirl

[noodyl-blasstal]

"It is gift enough that something endless and eternal and magical came here and loved us."

Brennan Lee Mulligan just fully ruining me with this whole section of World's Beyond Number.

The whole section was so beautiful, the let her go Vs try something else, the familial tension, the joy and sadness all wrapped together in the closing weeks (months?) of a life... I sobbed.

[icewindandboringhorror]

just a few little bits from the past few days

[ghostypetrainer]

Akari and Ingo hiking the poke-verse equivalent of the Appalachian Trail once they return from Hisui to the future... it’s their way of taking baby steps to get used to the modern world again, more so for Ingo than for Akari. Elesa, Emmet, Drayden, Iris, Barry and Lucas all join them on short stretches of their journey, but for the most part it’s just the two of them!

[britneyshakespeare]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

[dragonfang-photography]

Made it to the top.

10/10 hike; will probably not do again.

It is rated "hard" for a damn good reason. There are multiple places alomg the ridge to the summit where if you fuck up, you absolutely risk death. I did find it easier to climb up the last chain section without using the chain, and hugging the ground next to it instead. I'll see how it goes on the way back down.

[rustpuppy]

Kendall Katwalk

[roylustang]

YouTube really reading me lately

[rimouskis]

speaking of concerts: 1. disappointed that glass animals aren't coming to PGH on their next tour 2. DISGUSTED that seated tickets for their show IN OHIO started at $90

[tiffanyachings]

“Fiat lux! If you want to talk improbable, let’s talk about this”—a scrape of stone on stone—“being three thousand and some years older than this.” A heavy clunk.

“Inexplicable, Warden.”

“Certainly not. Like everything else in this ridiculous conglomeration of cooling gas, it’s perfectly explicable, I just need to explic-it.”

“Indubitable, Warden.”

“Stop that. I need you listening, not racking your brain for rare negatives. Either this entire building was scavenged from a garbage hopper, or I am being systematically lied to on a molecular level.”

“Maybe the building’s shy.”

“That is just tough shit for the building.”

[galaxycunt]

Evan thinks it’s funny I keep calling our trips stolen valor but he doesn’t understand the incredible drama on the pct Facebook group that I read like the newspaper like most fb groups I am a part of

[the-sound-of-her-wings]

The local figure skating club changed their rules in a way that is frankly baffling to me if their intent is to make money and gain more skaters because they now:

Won't allow guest skaters or walk ons AT ALL. Period no stop

Require you pass BASIC 6 before you can even step foot on the ice

Like so sorry but are you for real. How do either of those things encourage growth?

Also how do you expect me to pass Basic 6 without even attempting to provide extra ice time outside of Learn to Skate?? Am I supposed to skate on a public session, which my rink doesn't even have again until September???

It's not like the guest skaters were skating for free either, I pay $15 for half an hour and $25 for a full hour. I understand the desire to give higher level skaters time to skate away from us on the more beginner side but there's gotta be away to do that which doesn't alienate a whole group of people.

And the thing is I WANT to skate. I LOVE skating! I would LOVE to be a part of this club even though it clearly doesn't want me! But this does not incentivise me to skate more and get better like even a little bit! It does the exact fucking opposite!

I know we all bitch about how at the international level the ISU fails to promote skating and make it relevant again but truly skating is adverse to people it doesn't think are worthy at literally every single level, no matter how big or small.

[fruitybashir]

no stop you can not do this to me I was an austrian Catholic scout and that time was SO GREAT. I miss it so much. I'm getting so nostalgic it's crazy wtf

SAAAAAME like goddd i miss being a scout so much sometimes, literally some of the best childhood memories ever </3

i left the church years ago but i even miss the christian aspects of it like not gonna lie, communal mass in summer camp was a BLAST and i miss campfire nights so much it hurts fr, i would give anything to sit on logs around the fire and sing with everyone waaaaaa

[rascheln]

My dad sent me not one, not two, not three not four, but SIX different ideas for bike routes we could take on Wednesday. I'm overwhelmed.

[dragonfang-photography]

Some close-up pics of the dryad's saddle mushrooms, Polyporus squamosus.