[pct-l] please remove me from list

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

On May 1, 2010, at 2:43 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
>> It's kinda like the Roach Motel. You can check-in, but you can't  
>> check-out!
>
> "Welcome to the Hotel California"
> "...this could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
> "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave"

Oh I have to tell the story of Wrightwood. I hiked through there in  
'08. We had a snowstorm for several days over Memorial Day weekend. I  
felt so trapped. When finally the weather looked better I set off  
with my boyfriend into the snow. I got to the top of Baden-Powell and  
did not like the looks of things. Clouds were forming again. I  
worried it would rain on top of the snow and with all the postholing  
we were doing I just wanted to go somewhere else safer, warmer and  
just not so extreme. So we careened down this gully to the highway  
(never was I so scared as when we did that, but that's yet another  
story). But stupidly instead of turning left on the highway, I turned  
right and headed back to Wrightwood. As we were sitting in this bar  
eating burgers, Hotel California was playing on the jukebox. I  
thought, how appropriate. I told my boyfriend let's get in the car  
and drive as far away from Wrightwood as we can get so I can get back  
on the trail somewhere outside its gravitational pull. We drove to 3- 
Points, a big huge chunk of driving that had us go south through I-15  
and Cajon Pass and then around the front sides of the San Gabriels  
all the way to La Canada. I continued on from there. I never did  
complete that section in between and it looks like I may never. I  
never want to get that close to Hotel California again!


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~ Piper's Flight
~ Adventure and Magic
~ Santa Barbara Hikes
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