No, but um stay away from the meth heads.
There was this guy who posted here a few years ago, when we had a decent actual thread about backpacking, saying he had done the PCT a few years prior to the thread, and had started hanging out with a specific group of young people, but then had a falling out when it became clear they were more interested in smoking meth than hiking. There were more details than that, but I forget now. Was one of the more amusing threads here.

My personal stance is the US has a lot of fun shorter 3-5 night backpacking trails, or even some 2-3 week trails and those are more interesting than devoting all your effort to one big trail, but obviously they are more work sourcing gear to particular locations and finding places to stay off trail and all that, but I think ultimately more interesting and rewarding.

>>2865906
I plan on doing by myself. Not really a social person

>>2865904
Get your permits as early as you can. That'll determine whether you're actually able to do the hike or not.

>>2865948
>Walking
>Permit
Lol, Lmao even

>>2865913
im going this year sobo of course july 17. Should be very easy to be alone, im not sociable either, its very easy to be to yourself on any trail really, its also really easy to find a group of hobos on heroin basically just always go sobo and its very unlikely youll find druggies as nobo is always more social so thats where they would congregate

>>2866004
Never gave any thought to doing sobo. Might have to consider it. Could start later in the year too

>>2865988
Won't be very funny when a forest janny hits you with a $300 fine. You get checked several times throughout the Sierras

>>2865904
i agree with >>2865906. the two biggest trails in the us have become way, waaay too accessible to broke ass crackheads and losers. if you must do them, be aware of how close you are to trail towns and treat them like an open meadow in a war zone. pass quickly and quietly

>>2866040
>>2865988
You'll get checked in more than just the Sierras and you can/will be denied entry and booted out. Just do the permit lottery. Don't be edgy