[pct-l] Water & Trail Report Big Bear Area

[Andrea Dinsmore]

Sounds like a good description of Mad Monte !!!  You forgot the head full of
big fuzzy hair......:)  It would be interesting to compare journals of 1975
and 2008.

PCT MOM

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> >
> > What did all the hikers do before there were the modern
> > conveniences and
> > mail drops ??
> >
> > PCT MOM
> I was wondering that, too. I have a book from 1975 and was browsing
> it to see if I could find out.
>
> It sounds like they went into town for supplies, even mail drops --
> sometimes way far away compared to now because towns were smaller
> then, stayed with friendly people along the way, and in the Sierras a
> friend hiked in with supplies every now and then. They also carried
> 50-60lb packs and it sounds like they ate mostly regular food, not
> powdered this and energy-bar that. They averaged 10 miles per day,
> but they carried heavy camera equipment. They also did only 1600
> miles of what was then a 2400 mile trail.
>
> Pictures show them wearing denim shorts, cotton shirts, wool sweaters
> and heavy boots. Not the high-tech stuff people wear now. And it sure
> looked colder back then, too.
>
> Diane
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