It is available for Thru-hikers covering 500 or more miles in a single trip. In planning your hike, several books are required including the PCT Guide books. This page covers a number of the books that will assist in planning the perfect hike. It's impossible to hike the PCT without condering the current trail conditions. Each year many feet of snow falls on the Sierra and Cascade Mountains.
Poor planning can result in miles of snow hiking.
In other areas of the trail, far from the snow fields, the lack of water can mean many miles of hiking between sources. The trail conditions page tries to keep up todate with the latest information on water sources. Read this to help sort out fact from fiction. The Internet supports a PCT related email list. This is a group of individuals interested in hiking all or parts of the trail.