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Hiking schedules

It is possible to hike the PCT without a plan. People do so successfully but more of them will give up at some stage. You are more likely to succeed if you have a strategy to complete the hike and a detailed plan to fall back on in times of difficulty. Obviously circumstances might force you to adjust your plans as you go along.

The main reasons for a detailed schedule are to help you organise your food supplies and to ensure you neither reach the High Sierra too soon nor Washington too late. If travellers from outside the US have confidence in their schedule they can book a return flight at the same time as their outbound flight, and save themselves a lot of money.

In 2006, a record snow year, most hikers started far too early and, despite all sorts of delaying tactics, reached Kennedy Meadows when there was almost continuous snowpack in the High Sierra. Of the early starters only a small minority, who were experienced winter mountaineers, got through the High Sierra.