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YES!
14 months ago
Damn straight. (The Appalachian Trail would do nicely as well)
How to hike the pacific northwest trail
It made me
strong 
"A thru-hike of this length is life-changing."
How I did it: I began planning well over a year previous to the hike. Planning involved route choices, dietary planning, physical fitness, saving money, and gear acquisition. I spent a lot of time online gathering data from previous hikers. I also read the PNTA Guidebook from cover to cover to get a feel for how it flowed and highlighted any data I felt would help me in advance as well as on trail.
Lessons & tips: Get in shape. Be sure you enjoy hiking on poorly maintained trails lacking in informational signs. Prepare yourself for not seeing lots of people from the time you leave Glacier National Park until the time you walk into the Cascades.
Resources: Joining the Internet forums on the PNTA Web site is very valuable.
People such as myself and other former hikers provide helpful responses
to questions and most of your questions have been answered already - to
be found with a little searching.
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Thru-hike completed.
2 years ago
June 21st through August 20th, 2007 I walked the roughly 1200 miles from the Continental Divide in Montana to the Pacific Ocean in Washington. The trip was gorgeous, fabulous and invigorating. I have a bunch of information relating to it at http://samh.net/backpacking
the date is set...
4 years ago
June 2006. That gives me a full year to get ready and plan my trip and (hopefully) recruit a hiking partner or two. Anybody game?
