[pct-l] CURRENT trail conditioins Mammoth to S.City

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

Wow! I haven't been there this year. The years I've been there I  
couldn't imagine it being dangerous. And I didn't mean trail runners  
as in shoes, I meant people running on the trail for exercise.

On Aug 11, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Sir Mix-a-lot wrote:

> I'm absolutely sure that it was Duck Pass that our work crew hiked  
> over to
> go past Duck Lake so that we could camp alongside Duck Creek to  
> work on the
> PCT.  One of the Inyo NF packers told this to a PCTA rep that told  
> me that.
>  It's quite believable since the snow on the switchbacks there had  
> barely
> melted over the boy scouts rocks and left the rest of the trail  
> under a
> couple feet of snow as of 2 days ago.  Granted, snow doesn't always  
> stop the
> pack trains, it can certainly upset a mule if they bump up against  
> a boulder
> which happened to some Red's Meadow pack mules near Agnew Meadows  
> when a
> large boulder landed in the trail and caused that string of mules  
> to run
> down into the water and for the cook to get his gear damaged.
>
> Maybe I should have said that the Inyo NF packers refuse to go over  
> that
> pass right now?  As a PCT trail worker out there this summer, I  
> found their
> support to be very disappointing, which they blamed on the the snow,
> although I suspect other reasons...
>
> I do agree about this pass being easy in trail runners, but I've  
> never found
> trail runners to be a problem on the snow.  I had more difficulty  
> on the
> snow when I was wearing my work boots.
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
> diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure it was Duck Pass and not Dicks Pass? Duck Pass is really
>> easy. Trail runners and day hikers in flip-flops easy. I've seen mule
>> trains on it, too.
>>
>> Diane
>> On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>>
>>> I heard a few days ago that a pack string from the Mammoth Pack
>>> Station had
>>> a serious accident going over Duck Pass which is a little under 11k
>>> feet.
>>>  That pack station sent another pack string through that pass
>>> yesterday, but
>>> I can tell you that the Inyo NF packers refuse to go through that
>>> pass.
>>
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