{"id":2181,"date":"2018-02-02T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minorcoursecorrection.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:20:23","slug":"new-and-improved-pct-now-0-09-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/new-and-improved-pct-now-0-09-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"New and Improved PCT. Now 0.09% Longer!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halfmile<\/a> released his 2018 maps yesterday and there is one significant difference.\u00a0 The trail has grown an additional 2.5 miles.<\/p>\n

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!\u00a0 Are they trying to kill us!?!\u00a0 2,650.1 miles was long enough!\u00a0 Now it is 2,562.6!?! You can’t just change the trail like that.\u00a0 If you are going to add 2.5 miles in one place, you need to remove 2.5 miles from another.\u00a0 Besides, 2,650.1 miles rolls of the tongue.<\/p>\n

Two… Thousand… Six… Hundred… And Fifty… Point One…<\/em><\/p>\n

That Point One? It was the cherry on top.<\/p>\n

I already dropped a butt-load of money on two sets of maps — which are completely wrong now I might add.\u00a0 The black-and-white copy fills two 2-inch binders, because this is no walk in the park.\u00a0 That and I enjoy saying “I’m going on a hike, do you want to see the maps?”<\/p>\n

“Sure!”<\/p>\n

Thud!<\/em><\/p>\n

“Oh. My. God.”<\/p>\n

“Wait…”<\/p>\n

Thud!<\/em><\/p>\n

“Are you mad?”<\/p>\n

But what really pisses me off about this is that I already bought 100 “I Laughed When He Said He Was Hiking 2,650.1 Miles” T-Shirts for those who don’t believe in me.\u00a0 (You know who you are…)<\/p>\n

The new section is in California, mile 1203.4.\u00a0 The new 6.9 mile trail is much more ascetically pleasing and replaces a 4.4 mile section that was mostly a road hike.\u00a0 It is a good thing, and 2.5 miles is another joyful hour on the trail.\u00a0 The last one off wins.<\/p>\n

T-minus 63 days.\u00a0 Looks more and more like it is a drought year.\u00a0 That means that I won’t die getting washed down in a flash flood in the mountains, but I’ll die of thirst in the desert.\u00a0 Until then, I train and I dream.<\/p>\n

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Halfmile released his 2018 maps yesterday and there is one significant difference.\u00a0 The trail has grown an additional 2.5 miles. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!\u00a0 Are they trying to kill us!?!\u00a0 2,650.1 miles was long enough!\u00a0 Now it is 2,562.6!?! You can’t just change the trail like that.\u00a0 If you are going to add 2.5 … Continue reading New and Improved PCT. Now 0.09% Longer!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}