[pct-l] White gas on PCT?

Tue Mar 6 06:17:30 CST 2007

Wife and I are thru hiking this May.  Can we find white gas consistently
along the PCT?  Thanks!  

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Today's Topics:

   1. March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction
      (Bighummel at aol.com)
   2. April Kickoff - Marketing Ploy Cont. (Hiker97 at aol.com)
   3. snow levels (Georgi Heitman)
   4. Re: The results of your email commands (Georgi Heitman)
   5. Re: March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction
      (Slyatpct at aol.com)
   6.  Quilts vs bags (Francis Tapon)
   7. low snow year/ drier SoCal? (matthew lesniewicz)
   8. Re: Cabin Near Hwy 74 in Southern CA (Schifrin Benjamin)
   9. RE FOR SALE (Adam Bradley)
  10. Re: March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction
      (Bill Batchelor)
  11. Big Agnes SL1 on sale (Greg Hardwick)
  12. Re: March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction
      (Bighummel at aol.com)
  13. (no subject) (Bill & Cathy  Frenette)
  14. Re: March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction
      (Bill Batchelor)
  15. Jumping Tent (Hiker97 at aol.com)
  16. Quilts vs bags (Matt Bradley)
  17. Fwd: Lightning: Pre-strike sounds and sensations,	Franklin
      Rhoda on (Brick Robbins)
  18. Pack Cover source (StoneDancer1 at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:37:34 EST
From: Bighummel at aol.com
Subject: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Cc: reynolds at iLAN.com
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I must be WAY too busy this year!  I missed my March 1 prediction  date! 

So here is my way too irresponsible, unqualified, heavily caveated  
prediction of the earliest entry date for the Sierra by a snow-experienced,
capable 
and gear equipped hiker;

June 7th

That's it, simple, no frills, no excitement, no marching band.  The  Sierra 
snow survey points are all showing this winter is exhibiting  significantly 
below normal accumulations. 

IMHO, HYOH, GSIIYDLI, etc.

Greg "Strider" Hummel

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:06:43 EST
From: Hiker97 at aol.com
Subject: [pct-l] April Kickoff - Marketing Ploy Cont.
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Cc: carolwbruno at yahoo.com
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My apologies for not including the  free Pink Flamingo shelter stakes
drawing 
in my previous post.  I have the  stakes already.  I know some of you were 
upset that I forgot to mention  this drawing at my Pirate table too.

Thank you again.

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:22:16 -0800
From: "Georgi Heitman" <bobbnweav at citlink.net>
Subject: [pct-l] snow levels
To: <weskaggs at primate.ucdavis.edu>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
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     Bill said, '
                .....it would take some really massive storms....'

All it took was one, Easter Sunday last...to take care of the other 30 % and
then some.

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:28 -0800
From: "Georgi Heitman" <bobbnweav at citlink.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] The results of your email commands
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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----- Original Message ----- 
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To: <bobbnweav at citlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:12 AM
Subject: The results of your email commands

> The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
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> 
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>    The gum-chewing hiker, the cud-chewing cow.=20
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>    It's the thoughtful expression of the face of the cow.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:34:59 EST
From: Slyatpct at aol.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff
	Prediction
To: Bighummel at aol.com, pct-l at backcountry.net
Cc: reynolds at iLAN.com
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Bighummel at aol.com writes:

So here  is my way too irresponsible, unqualified, heavily caveated   
prediction of the earliest entry date for the Sierra by a  snow-experienced,

capable 
and gear equipped hiker;

June  7th
------------------------------------------------

Looks like you're being a little conservative this year Greg, postholer sez

June 1st! ; )

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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:59:51 -0800
From: "Francis Tapon" <ft at francistapon.com>
Subject: [pct-l]  Quilts vs bags
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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Paul, I have had first hand experience with a two person quilt. I used it
for both the AT and the PCT (and many other adventures). They are marvelous!
Share body heat!

I used an old GoLite quilt, which they don't make any more. It was
synthetic. 

The only place that makes a two person quilt, that I know of, is Feathered
Friends. They are rectangular sleeping bags that you can use like a quilt.

The other idea is to use a Jacks R Better Quilt, which is marvelous. I am
using that one from now on. It's only for one person, but you could
obviously get one each. It's intelligently designed and extremely versatile.
The No Sniveler is the one I use. www.jacksrbetter.com 

Take care,

Francis Tapon 
Check out my 2 minute video: http://tinyurl.com/yyzdbo 
Learn about my book, Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking
Across America, at: http://www.FrancisTapon.com 

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:12:55 -0800 (PST)
From: matthew lesniewicz <mlesswicz at yahoo.com>
Subject: [pct-l] low snow year/ drier SoCal?
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
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I saw Sundays message 5 and they were asking about ice ax and the reply was
low snow levels as much 70%.Probably not needed.  Would crampons still be
recomended?  Low snow would seem traveling the sierras easier but also seems
like we will be missing out on certain element of of the challenge and
adventure.
  I would assume naturally a low snow year means a drier southern Cal?  Does
this seem to hold true? As far as creeks and springs being dry, from reading
the guide book and yogi's handbook it appears like much of the water is
depended upon spickets at the camgrounds and town or caches. Alot sound
schetchy from cows or there just always dried up anyways. Is there a trend
for the low snow years and the resulting effect for socal?

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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:46:26 -0800
From: Schifrin Benjamin <benschif at hughes.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cabin Near Hwy 74 in Southern CA
To: Pam Bryant <pam.bryant at cox.net>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Message-ID: <F3C531C0-99F4-4958-8E0F-5FB753B648AA at hughes.net>
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Yep. That's the Gold Shot Mine cabin. It is private property, it is  
not open to the public. The owners have had lots of problems with  
vandalism. PCt hikers have been in it; they are NOT welcome.

-- 
Ben Schifrin
Wilderness Press
17360 Highgrade Lane
Sonora CA 95370
work 800.443.7227
home 209.586.5767
benschif at mac.com

On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Pam Bryant wrote:

> Does anyone know of a cabin that is located about 9 miles north of  
> Hwy 74 and about 1 mile off trail. I was told that one exists and  
> want to know more info. The Idyllwild Forest Office said that it  
> was there, but did not have any info.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Pam
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:48:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Adam Bradley <tooloouk79852 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [pct-l] RE FOR SALE
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Message-ID: <43910.74749.qm at web90414.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

An update on what I still have left
For Sale:

Garmont Vegan size 12 40.00
Therma Rest Guidelite (full size) 20.00
Omni Seal Map Case 11x15 2.00
REI Desert Gaiters (size s 8-10) 12.00
Bug Baffler Pants size S/m 15.00
Bug Baffler Shirt size s/m 20.00 
First Need water purifier (old model no screw on
w/accessories and stuff sack almost new) 40.00
Wiggy?s Superlite 0*  short 5ft 3 3/4lb (w stuff sack
and pillow) 90.00
Thermarest Easy Chair (size 20? full length pads or
smaller) 18.00

All products used but in excellent shape. None of
these prices include the shipping. If you are
interested email me your zip code and I can give you a
price including
shipping. I also use paypal.  There will also be a
small addition of the Paypal fee. Won't be shipping
out of US so sorry Thanks Adam

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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:32:15 -0800
From: "Bill Batchelor" <billbatch at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff
	Prediction
To: <Bighummel at aol.com>,	<pct-l at backcountry.net>
Cc: reynolds at iLAN.com
Message-ID: <00b001c75eb5$59249650$6501a8c0 at OFFICE>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

I am not sure I can trust anything that has no marching band.  

BillB (YTNH) 

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Bighummel at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:38 AM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Cc: reynolds at iLAN.com
Subject: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction

I must be WAY too busy this year!  I missed my March 1 prediction  date! 

So here is my way too irresponsible, unqualified, heavily caveated
prediction of the earliest entry date for the Sierra by a snow-experienced,
capable and gear equipped hiker;

June 7th

That's it, simple, no frills, no excitement, no marching band.  The  Sierra
snow survey points are all showing this winter is exhibiting  significantly
below normal accumulations. 

IMHO, HYOH, GSIIYDLI, etc.

Greg "Strider" Hummel

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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:14:26 -0700
From: "Greg Hardwick" <gahardwick at cox.net>
Subject: [pct-l] Big Agnes SL1 on sale
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Message-ID: <000801c75ec3$9e5c6f00$14a10344 at DD6HZXB1>
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Looks like it is $149.

http://www.featheredfriends.com/retail_store/Sale/spring07/salepage.html

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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:34:46 EST
From: Bighummel at aol.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff
	Prediction
To: Slyatpct at aol.com, pct-l at backcountry.net
Cc: reynolds at iLAN.com
Message-ID: <ce3.ae6114e.331ccdb6 at aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

Oh man!  And I'm still a Democrat!  I just picked June 7th to  squeeze Tom 
Reynolds out a bit and see if he would pick an earlier date, as he  has
always 
picked a later one.  

Strider

In a message dated 3/4/2007 12:34:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, Slyatpct  
writes:

Looks like you're being a little conservative this year Greg, postholer  sez

June 1st! ; )

Sly

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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:14:22 -0800
From: "Bill & Cathy  Frenette" <tahoe.cat at verizon.net>
Subject: [pct-l] (no subject)
To: "Carl Siechert" <carlito at gmail.com>, "Carl Siechert"
	<carl.s at charter.net>, 	<Bighummel at aol.com>
Cc: PCT-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Message-ID: <000801c75ed4$5fb16f10$5a6d6e47 at storm22>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi Greg & Carl    When are we going to be able to sign up for the kick off?
Ground Pounder Bill

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Message: 14
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:19:43 -0800
From: "Bill Batchelor" <billbatch at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff
	Prediction
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Message-ID: <00b801c75ed5$20676340$6501a8c0 at OFFICE>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

 Remember folks, the postholer site assumes from this day forward there will
be no more snow - none, nada, zip.  His date graph does not assume that
there will be an average amount falling in March.  It bases its entry date
as if this is all the snow we will see.

So, his date of June 1st or 2nd will keep adjusting every time an inch of
snow falls in March.  Hence the reason Scott posts that his graph will be
most useful around April 1.

BillB (YTNH)

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Bighummel at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:35 PM
To: Slyatpct at aol.com; pct-l at backcountry.net
Cc: reynolds at iLAN.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] March 1st (belatedly) Sierra Snow Meltoff Prediction

Oh man!  And I'm still a Democrat!  I just picked June 7th to  squeeze Tom
Reynolds out a bit and see if he would pick an earlier date, as he  has
always picked a later one.  

Strider

In a message dated 3/4/2007 12:34:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, Slyatpct
writes:

Looks like you're being a little conservative this year Greg, postholer  sez
June 1st! ; )

Sly

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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:38:22 EST
From: Hiker97 at aol.com
Subject: [pct-l] Jumping Tent
To: montypct at gmail.com
Cc: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net, carolwbruno at yahoo.com
Message-ID: <cf5.7acb8b2.331d22ee at aol.com>
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_montypct at gmail.com_ (mailto:montypct at gmail.com)  writes:

If you  pitch your tent just right in a rainstorm, you could also make your 
tent floor  a water bed.
Monty   :0)
-----------------------
This is a great idea.  I think  when I order my foam from GossamerGear.com,
I 
will order two of the wide 1/4  inch foam pads.  Then I can see how much two

cut pieces would weigh for my  tent "ground cloth".  I like the idea of a
1/2 
inch of foam under the tent  Velcro together.  

I could bounce around inside my  tent like the kids do in those jumping 
structures at parties.  I could see  how high I could bounce up into the
air.  I 
could do tricks too, like  turning upside down, etc.  This is too cool.  I
could 
charge money for  other hikers to bounce around inside my tent.

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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:34:11 -0800
From: "Matt Bradley" <mattbradley1 at gmail.com>
Subject: [pct-l] Quilts vs bags
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Message-ID:
	<301d98090703050834m4087bb40o7d0fe8b6b1dbc1a5 at mail.gmail.com>
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Paul,
     I have been using quilts for my backpacking for years now and I have
been very pleased.  I have an old Golite Fur quilt, a Ray-Way homemade quilt
and a Nunatak Arc Alpinist.  The Nunatak is far-and-away the winner in
performance with a 20* rating for 18 oz.  My quilt is actaully 20 oz. with 2
oz of overfill and I have slept under it in temps near 20* reasonably
comfortably.  If you go for the Ray-Way kit make sure to cut it wider than
you think you need it.  Even following Ray's instructions mine is only wide
enough to sleep on my back under and if I roll on my side it doesn't quite
reach the ground.
    For my anticipated 2008 PCT hike I am probably going to use some sort of
two-person quilt for me and my partner but I haven't quite decided what the
best option will be.  I really like the Dual Arc Alpinist but for nearly 600
dollars is is a hard pill to swallow.  Let us all know what you decide to do
and how it works out for you.
Peace and love,
Matt

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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:00:53 -0800
From: "Brick Robbins" <brick at fastpack.com>
Subject: [pct-l] Fwd: Lightning: Pre-strike sounds and sensations,
	Franklin Rhoda on
To: PCT-L <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Message-ID:
	<ca2c2380703050900u11404e43wd5295d2895e7133d at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

I was asked to forward this to the list

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Ellinwood <rellinwood at worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mar 5, 2007 5:51 AM
Subject: Thanks, Brick. Here it is.
To: Brick Robbins <brick at fastpack.com>

Subject:  Lightning: Pre-strike sounds and sensations, Franklin Rhoda on
Sunshine Peak, CO, Aug 13, 1874

---------------------------------------------------------------
For those hikers interested in the sounds and sensations of a lightning
strike described in August, 1874:   Clicks, humming, sizzling, musical
sound?  This was educational for me.  Perhaps others will also learn
something, as well.

Dr Bob

---------------------------------------------------------------
From:  Summits to Reach - An Annotated Edition of Franklin Rhoda's "Report
on the Topography of the San Juan Country"  by Mike Foster.  Pruett
Publishing Co.,  Boulder,  1984,  pp.21-25.

[This event took place on 13,967' Sunshine Peak, next to Red Cloud Peak, on
August 13, 1874]

"We had scarcely got started to work when we both began to feel a particular
tickling sensation along the roots of our hair, just at the edge of our
hats, caused by the electricity in the air.  At first this sensation was
only perceptible and not at all troublesome; still its strength surprised
us, since the cloud causing it was yet several miles distant to the
southwest of us.  In the early part of the storm the tension of the
electricity increased quite slowly, as indicated by the effect on our hair.
By holding up our hands above our heads a tickling sound was produced, which
was still louder if we held a hammer or other instrument in our hand.  The
tickling sensation above was accompanied by a peculiar sound almost exactly
like that produced by the frying of bacon.   This latter phenomenon, when
continued for any length of time, becomes highly monotonous and
disagreeable.  Although the clouds were yet distant, we saw that they were
fast spreading and already veiled many degrees of the horizon.  As they
approached nearer, the tension of the electricity increased more rapidly,
and the extent of our horizon obscured by them increased in nearly the same
ratio; so that the rapid increase in the electric tension marked also an
increased velocity in recording angles and making sketches.  We felt that we
could not stop, though the frying of our hair became louder and more
disagreeable, for certain parts of the drainage of this region could not be
seen from any other peak, and we did not want to ascend this one a second
time.

As the force of the electricity increased, and the rate of increase became
greater and greater, the instrument on the tripod began to click like a
telegraph machine when it is made to work rapidly; at the same time we
noticed that the pencils in our fingers made a similar but finer sound
whenever we let them lie back so as to touch the flesh of the hand between
the thumb and forefinger.  This sound is at first nothing but a continuous
series of clicks, distinctly separable one from the other, but the intervals
becoming less and less, till finally a musical sound results.  The effect on
our hair became more and more marked, till, ten or fifteen minutes after its
first appearance, there was sudden and instantaneous relief, as if all the
electricity had been suddenly drawn from us.  After the lapse of a few
seconds the cause became apparent, as a peal of thunder reached our ears.
The lightning had struck a neighboring peak, and the electricity in the air
had been discharged.  Almost before the sound reaches us the tickling and
frying in our hair began again, and the same series of phenomena were
repeated, but in quicker succession, at the same time the sounds becoming
louder...

The clouds soon began to rise up and approach us.  As they did so, the
electricity became stronger and stronger, till another stroke of lightning
afforded instantaneous relief; but now the relief was only for an instant,
and the tension increased faster and faster until the next stroke.  By this
time the work was getting exciting.  We were electrified, and our notes were
taken and recorded with lightning speed, in keeping with the terrible
tension of the stormcloud's electricity.  The cloud reached us, coming on
like a fog, looking thin and light near us, but densely white at a short
distance.  All the phenomena before mentioned increased in force after each
succeeding stroke of lightning, while the intervals between strokes became
less and less.  When we raised our hats our hair stood on end, the sharp
points of the hundreds of stones about us each emitted a continuous sound,
while the instrument outsang everything else, and even at this high
elevation could be heard distinctly at the distance of fifty yards.  The
points of the angular stones being of different degrees of sharpness, each
produced a sound peculiar to itself.  The general effect of all was as if a
heavy breeze were blowing across the mountain.  The air was quite still, so
that the wind could have played no part in this strange natural concert, nor
was the intervention of a mythological Orpheus necessary to give to these
trachytic stones a voice.

Having completed a rough sketch of as much of the surrounding country as was
not obscured by clouds, I hastily took up the mercurial barometer, hoping to
get a reading before we should be compelled to leave the summit; but, alas!
too late for success.  The lightning-strokes were now coming thicker and
faster, being separated by not more than two or three minutes of time, and
we knew that our peak would soon be struck.  As I took the barometer out of
its leather case, and held it vertically, a terrible humming commenced from
the brass ring at the end, and increased in loudness so rapidly that I
considered it best to crawl hastily down the side of the peak to a point a
few feet below the top, where, by lying low between the rocks, I could
return the instrument to its case with comparative safety.  At the same
time, Wilson was driven from his instrument, and we both crouched down among
the rocks to await the relief to be given by the next stroke, which, for
aught we knew, might strike the instrument which now stood alone on the
summit.  At this time, it was producing a terrible humming, which, with the
noises emitted by the thousands of angular blocks of stone, and the sounds
produced by our hair, made such a din that we could scarcely think.  The
fast-increasing electricity was suddenly discharged, as we had anticipated,
by another stroke of lightning, which, luckily for us, struck a point some
distance away.

The instant he felt the relief, Wilson made a sudden dash for the
instrument, on his hands and knees, seized the legs of the tripod, and
flinging the instrument over his shoulder dashed back.  Although all this
occupied only a few seconds, the tension was so great that he received a
strong electric shock, accompanied by a pain as if a sharp-pointed
instrument had pierced his shoulder, where the tripod came in contact with
it.  In his haste he dropped the small brass cap which protected the
object-glass of the telescope; but, as the excitement and danger had now
grown so great, he did not trouble himself to go back after it, and it still
remains there in place of the monument we could not build to testify to the
strange experiences on this our station 12.  We started as fast as we could
walk over the loose rock, down the southeast side of the peak, but had
scarcely got more than 30 feet [he must have meant yards] from the top when
it was struck.  We had only just missed it, and felt thankful for our narrow
escape."

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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:46:51 EST
From: StoneDancer1 at aol.com
Subject: [pct-l] Pack Cover source
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Message-ID: <c2c.bb5cc4d.331db18b at aol.com>
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OK,  who knows about a good source for a pack cover that is light,  
waterproof and will really fit over ULA Catalyst fully loaded?  

Recovering nicely now from exposure to trail pirates in deep  
ravines......... Alice

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