Updated 7/29/12, 8:45 pm
InciWeb reports the Chips Fire has closed the #PCT from Belden to Highway 36.
Link:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3052/
Quincy (29 miles E of Belden on Hwy 70) has bus service to Chester 3 times per day:
http://www.plumastransit.com/qcy_to_chester_23.html
A PCT-L message from Belden trail angels makes reference to a possible alternate route alternate routes via the Butt Lake forestry road off of caribou road:
http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/pct-l/2012-July/061042.html