[pct-l] hiking in rain gear

[Cris]

Hey Steel-eye or Meadow Ed,
I must have missed earlier conversations about this Parcho garment-sounds
perfect.  Where do you get one?

Cris
 
mountains don't tolerate fools....
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> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:59:21 -0800
> From: "Steel-Eye" <chelin at teleport.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hiking in Rain Gear
> To: "Mark Jernigan" <footslogger03 at yahoo.com>,
<pct-l at backcountry.net>
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> Good afternoon, Footslogger
> 
> Going without rain gear in the Pacific Northwest is like going without a
> sun
> hat in the desert or bug protection in the Sierras:  You can if you want
> to,
> but I won't.
> 
> I have one of Bill's rain outfits.  If it's the one Meadow Ed refers to it
> is called a Bigly Parcho, as in Par from parka and cho from poncho.  This
> my
> second rainy season with it in Oregon's west-slope Cascades, and I am very
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