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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 2774745, member: 7894"] (sorry for the thread drift for anyone that isn't participating :rolleyes:) My brother has the theory that much of the elevation gain and loss on the AT is due to poor trail construction and failure to follow the contours of the landscape. Can't say myself as I haven't had boots on the ground there, but he has. I suppose I'd have to hike in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont for comparison, but I have a really hard time believing it stacks up to the scenery along the John Muir Trail section in California or the Alpine Lakes and Glacier Peak Wildernesses and North Cascades National Park in Washington. Of course what constitutes great scenery is highly subjective. Do a quick image search on Google though and the difference is stark and stunning to me. I really don't know the route of the CDT, but I've done a number of road trips in the Northern Rockies and Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are pretty dang spectacular as well. To me it's just a no brainer if you want really great mountain scenery you go West (never mind British Columbia and Alberta north of the border, guaranteed to blow your mind). edited--don't judge the PCT based on the film version of "Wild." Much of it wasn't filmed on the actual PCT and the author missed almost all of the best parts of the trail. She did the California desert, skipped almost all of the Sierras and didn't hike in Washington at all. Oregon has some nice sections but overall is the least interesting of the 3 states the PCT passes through. [/QUOTE]

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