Oh Lea, Lea, Lea,

There are parts that are STEEP!!!! Feels like straight
up. Then up some more. Then, oh, up some more! The
advice given to me re: getting Sideways and Planet
Walk in one trek was to do PW till just past Saturn,
then detour onto Gray Pine Trail to do Sideways, then
take Brushy Peaks Trail (pay attention to this name,
especially the second word) back to PW and do Pluto,
Neptune and Uranus in that order. That is all fine and
good. Start out first thing in the morning and give
yourself all day so you don't have to try to hurry any
part of it like some of us did. I am a backpacker from
way back and sneer a little when I see people using
the double walking stick technique of hiking. I'll
tell ya, I wish we'd each had a pair for this hike.
Especially for the downhills.

You might want to do the series(es) separately, thus
avoiding the gnarly traverse between the top of
Sideways and the top of PW. Do one one day, and one
the next. But maybe the steepness of PW alone is bad
enough to make it preferable to do them together. I
think only da Kool Kats and Mim would know. All of
Mim's SLRSP boxes are alive and well, as well as
Abamit and her Shadow. Mim says wine country series
(at SLRSP) is missing boxes 2 & 3.

A lovely little (much more tame!) series for before or
after the killer ones is The Four Seasons. Very nice.
No soreness.

Have fun!!!

aT

p.s. many of PW's boxes are a great size in which to
fit hitchhikers!





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