[pct-l] rain gear

[Joel Ramey]

Okay, in honesty, I've actually never gotten to hike in rain. I've
done a decent bit of hiking, but its always snowed instead (and
usually at freak times).

But how bad is the rain, is it going to be like in NM (maybe driving
for about 2 hours, then stop, repeat if big storm?

I'm just thinking that if I bring a full blown rain jacket, I'll
probably drench myself just as much with sweat.

I dunno, just thinking out loud, I'll check out what the REI here has,
maybe get a better poncho

-Taildragger

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Gary Wright <gwtmp01 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On May 27, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Eric Lee (GAMES) wrote:
>>
>> That depends.  Are you completely comfortable with your ability to stay
>> safe with just an emergency poncho and a Driclime in blowing rain or eight
>> inches of wet snow?  Have you actually tried it before in similar
>> conditions?  As Donna just wrote, even SoCal you're often up in high,
>> remote, mountainous areas that are known to have very bad weather through at
>> least June.  Don't be fooled into thinking that "desert" means "guaranteed
>> good weather".
>
> For example:
>
> April 26, 2004, Mt. Laguna: hot and sunny in the high 90's
> April 23, 2006, Mt. Laguna: ice storm, 2 inches of snow, gale force winds
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