My plans at this stage of the year are always pretty loose, but even before this pandemic I was contemplating backpacking in some unusually remote places in Oregon this summer. I have thought some about the risks I'd be running if I were hiking solo a couple of days from a road/trailhead and came down ill, but if I am asymptomatic at the start of a hike I think the risk is something I could accept. That could change with new information.

By July the dimensions of this outbreak should be much clearer and the risks easier to assess accurately. I'd be a fool to think any plans I make today would not be obsolete by the time the high trails are snow free. All I can do now is play around with different scenarios and hope for the best.