Whiteblaze always seems to be pretty east coast heavy. For those near the santa cruz bay area this coming weekend there is a great get together put on by the American Long Distance Hiking Association (West) on Saturday. Its targeted toward people interested in longer trails and lightweight hiking. Its hosted by a number of former thru hikers and has some gear vendors, raffles, lunch and lots of times for in person Q&A. Its the first one in California and should be a great time. And for those of you that have been there done that I had a great time going after my hike of the PCT, it was great to reconnect and meet other local hikers and plot my CDT hike.