[pct-l] PCT Hikers per Capita

[shutterbugg313 at yahoo.com (Shutterbug steiner)]

I agree with the San Gabriel Wilderness area and would
add Sheep Mountain Wilderness Area both North of LA
metro.  Cucamonga Wilderness would also be (but
barely) within the hour range of LA Metro.  The
Wilderness I don't buy is the San Bernardino
Wilderness - there are two wilderness areas in San
Bernardino National Forest - San Gorgonio and San
Jacinto but neither is within an Hour of LA and there
is NO wilderness called San Bernardino.

Just throwing names around having nothing better to do
than fighting over name designations

Duane - Shutterbug

--- Sharon & Chuck Chelin <chelin@teleport.com> wrote:

> Good evening,
> 
> I've heard the same comment about Portland being the
> closest major city to a
> designated wilderness area, but I don't buy it. 
> From what I see on the
> mapping software, the southern edge of the San
> Gabriel Wilderness is only
> about 5 air-miles from the northern edge of the Los
> Angeles Metroplex at
> either Monrovia or Pasadena, and the PCT at that
> point is only about 13
> miles away.  It looks like the PCT just barely
> crosses into the San Gabriel
> Wilderness a few times on its north side.  The
> Cucamonga Wilderness about
> the same distance from some of the more eastern
> suburbs, and the San
> Bernardino Wilderness is less than 15 miles from San
> Bernardino
> 
> I also read in somewhere that, NoBo, Ashland was the
> first major city close
> to the PCT.  Obviously, I don't buy that either.  It
> is not as close as Los
> Angeleplex, and I don't see Ashland to be a major
> city.
> 
> I am fortunate to live east of Sandy, Oregon, which
> no one will ever confuse
> with a "major US city", and I can be on the trail in
> the Mt. Hood Wilderness
> in about a half hour if I want.
> 
> Steel-Eye
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ECPG" <ecpg@peoplepc.com>
> To: "PCT-List" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Hikers per Capita
> 
> 
> > The Forest Sevice here claims that we have the
> closest designated
> wilderness
> > area (Mt Hood Wilderness)  to a major city in the
> US. And the PCT runs
> right
> > through it.
> > I can be on the PCT within an hour of leaving my
> house. Assuming I walk
> real
> > fast.
> >
> > Carolyn Eddy
> > "Sweet Goat Mama"
> > www.goattracksmagazine.com
> >
> >
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