[pct-l] Prepared for weather

[Tom Bache]

Larry,

I am a huge admirer of your book.  It is a pleasure to see your name on this
list.

[Fellow listers -- get "All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert
Landscape" -- it focuses on San Diego County backcountry and provides a
wonderful synthesis of history, geology, and ecology. His thoughts about the
role of humans and fire are thought provoking and original (to me anyway).]

I've been hoping you were working on another, so looking forward to seeing
your new book.  

Tom Bache
La Jolla  



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> 
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:37:23 -0700
> From: "Larry Hogue" <Lhogue1 at san.rr.com>
> Subject: [pct-l]  Prepared for weather
> To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> 
> Diane, great post on the varied environments the PCT passes through in
> Southern California.
>  
> If you're hiking over Hauser Mountain when it's 80 degrees and thinking,
> "this is a hot, dry desert," just try going for a hike in the Borrego
> Badlands on the same day. What seem like sterile and abstract definitions of
> "desert" and "not a desert" will suddenly become much more real and
> immediate. And the shade provided by all those ribbonwoods and sugar bushes
> and manzanitas on the PCT will suddenly seem luxurious. But if you've just
> come from, let's say, western Oregon, it probably does feel just like a
> "desert" in a loose sense.
>  
> How the human body experiences these differences is subjective. I remember
> opining about how dry it was in Missoula MT, and all the natives of eastern
> Montana said "wait a minute, this isn't dry, this is the banana belt of the
> state." 
>  
> Larry Hogue
> Author, All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert Landscape
> Working on a narrative guide to the PCT in the Peninsular Ranges (Section A
> and half of B)
> 
>