[pct-l] Hiking wet

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

I ended up buying a cheap plastic poncho at the gas station in  
Snoqualmie Pass. To make it more like a parcho (which I really wanted  
but didn't want to pay $110 for, thinking I would hardly ever use  
it), I threaded some elastic cord through the back side bottom seam.  
Then I tied large safety pins to the two ends of the elastic and when  
I put on the poncho, I pinned the safety pins together at my waist  
like a belt buckle. This made it kind of like wearing a belt, but it  
also tucked the back part snug around my pack. It was difficult to  
put on and I only wore it once, but it worked really well. I think I  
would do something similar but a little nicer on my silnylon poncho.

What I didn't like about the rain was having wet feet. If I ever get  
a sewing machine, I want to make rain chaps that tuck around my shoes  
so that water can't run down into my shoes.