[pct-l] Creek Crossings

[Len Glassner]

Right, that's the crossing where the note said you could stay on the east side.

Just to clarify, Yogi's concern was with another crossing, I just
looked in her book and can't find the reference right now, it might
not have even been along the JMT.

On 2/2/09, AsABat <AsABat at 4jeffrey.net> wrote:
> That could be the Middle Fork of the Kings River, which is a bit north
> of Glen Pass, near the Taboose Pass Trail when the PCT starts climbing
> to Upper Basin and Mather Pass. I still vividly remember that one in
> 1998 (very high snow year). George was ranger at Little Pete Meadow that
> year, and he told us to NOT cross the rather tiny stream as we headed
> southbound, but to stay on the east side and it was an easy walk along
> the edge of the meadow about 3 miles to where the PCT recrossed the
> river. We were glad he took his advice, as when we reached what we
> otherwise would have had to cross we saw no way to do it, it looked like
> the rapids of the Grand Canyon.
>
> AsABat
>
> > There was another crossing (I'm too lazy to look it up) that Yogi
> > mentions as the worst for her and that one was below the knee as well.
> >  I did manage to fall in anyway, slipping off a rock as I was trying
> > to step up to the far bank.
> >
> > I think it was on the way to Glen Pass, encountering the Middle Fork
> > of Something or Another, that surprised me, as it garnered no special
> > comments anywhere that I recall.  My initial reaction was 'R U
> > kidding?', as it looked a somewhat, ah, 'challenging'.  (This was a
> > bit later in the day than the other crossings.)  Then I looked down at
> > the ground next to the trail and there was a note that said 'Follow
> > the river three miles up and the trail will cross back to this side.'
> > So that's what I did.  And it did.
>
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