[pct-l] To those dragging babies along while thru hiking

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

I'm certainly not going to judge whether it's a good or bad idea to  
bring a baby. I don't know anything about babies. But I did come  
across a few creeks I actually had to swim across. Yes, the water was  
over my head and I had to kick and paddle.

One was on the PCT itself (Stubblefield Creek I think) and one was on  
an alternate route I decided to take (Piute Creek miles downstream  
from where the PCT crosses). Both were in the Yosemite area above  
Tuolumne Meadows. Most of the creeks were pretty difficult when I  
came through, which was a bit earlier than most.

 From reading Zero Days, there were many alternate routes taken by  
Scrambler's family so that they could avoid things that mom  
considered to dangerous for her. They avoided some of the worst  
creeks. They did a lot of boring road walks. I think they tried to  
keep their daily mileage very low, too.