[pct-l] Yosemite and cheese

Sat Mar 10 13:48:02 CST 2012

Good Morning Chuck,

I always read your posts - they are among the best and most informative on this list.

The moonlight experience seeing the wild horses way back in 1968 must have been magic. No wonder it remains indelibly impressed among your
memories.  I have ridden hundreds of miles in the Nevada deserts and often passed close to herds of wild Mustangs. I learned from a fellow rider how Stallions mark their territory. I also visited wild herds in the Lassen area.Good thing yow were not in a tent on that memorable full moon night. In those days I never used a tent either - or even a sleeping pad or air mattress. Guess I'm just getting
 soft. 

Off list, I will send you my slide show. In the picture taken at the Kickoff in 2008, I think that is you kneeling behind the 2008 sign. I am standing behind you - if that's you?

MendoRider-Hiker

________________________________
 From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
To: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Yoshihiro Murakami <completewalker at gmail.com>; "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Yosemite and cheese

Good
morning, MendoRider,  
In August, 1968 I was hiking in the Central
Oregon sagebrush desert about 115 miles east of Crater Lake.  I camped on a slight ridge several hundred
yards from a small water hole optimistically known as Crow Lake.  As usual I was sleeping under the stars, but
I didn’t see many because the night was bright with a nearly-full moon. 
Sometime around midnight I awoke to a soft,
muffled thump-a-thump, thump-a-thump, thump-a-thump which I couldn’t recognize.  As I turned in my bag to look south I saw a
band of about 20 wild horses crossing the ridge 50 yards south of me on their
way to water. 
I can conjure that image today as pure western
Americana:  The horses walking slowly in
the night, single-file; backlit by the moon making them perfect black profiles.
I was down-wind so their smell was mixed with the scent of the sagebrush.   
Over the years I’ve seen hundreds – probably thousands
– of wild horses in the Great Basin Desert, but that image has been the most
enduring. 
I hope your Primo had good experiences in that
desert. 
Steel-Eye 
-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT –
1965 
http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye 
http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/ 

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Yoshi,
> 
>My plans to srart NOBO from Horseshoe Meadows and end at Tuolumne Meadows late July or early August, depending on the snow on Forester Pass.
>Perhaps our trails will pass. I will probably ride Primo, but will not if I am not able to desensitize him to llamas. He was terrified of them when we encountered them in Washington in 2008. He broke away and ran off, cross country, in a panic gallop. Before I bought Primo, he had been rejected from the sport of endurance racing (at five years old) and was released on the desert north of Bend, Oregon. He ran wild with a herd for two and one-half years. I'm sure he experienced angry stallions ready to fight. They hold their head high - their necks nearly vertical. That's what llamas look like from the side view. Primo and I were to win several 50 mile endurance races. Primo is now 18 - and I am 76. If I decide that it would be risky (because of the likelihood of meeting llamas in the Sierra) I might hike it instead of riding.
> 
>Off list, I will send you a 32 minute slide show that I have put together on my 2008 & 2009 ride. The link requires that you have Microsoft Windows. I am assuming that you have same. I look forward to possibly of meeting you and your wife on the trail. I might also meet QuincyRider (Charles Williams).
> 
>MendoRider-Hiker
> 
>
>________________________________
> From: Yoshihiro Murakami <completewalker at gmail.com>
>To: James A. Streeter <james8313 at sti.net>; Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 3:09 PM
>Subject: Re: Yosemite and cheese
>
>Dear YosemiteJames an Mendoridered
>
>I will fly from Los Angeles to Fresno,  go to Amtrak station by taxi,
>and go to Yosemite by Amtrack. It takes more cost than using Amtrack
>only, because I do not know the Amtrak bus station in Union station.
>
>My plan is:
>Tuolumne                  8/1
>VVR                          8/7     resupply
>Bishop 8/12       join with my wife
>8/13 or 14         hike with my wife ( with very heavy load )
>8/21-23             Lone Pine
>8/24                  go to Los Angeles by CREST bus
>8/25                  fly to Japan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>2012/3/9 James A. Streeter <james8313 at sti.net>:
>> Hi
>> We moved to the Yosemite foothills about 15 months ago from the
>> Los Angeles Area were we had helped a number of hikers.
>>
>> What are your plans getting from Los Angeles to Yosemite.  What
>> section
>> do you plan to hike. Let me know if you may need any help. We have
>> access to REI and a number of supermarkets
>>
>> Hard cheese will last longer than soft.
>>
>> YosemiteJames
>>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:57:49 +0900
>> From: Yoshihiro Murakami <completewalker at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] CHEESE
>> To: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>>
>> Dear Edward
>>
>> Ok. I wrote "Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese" in my facebook memo. I
>> will try to find it at Los Angeles.
>>
>> My entry date is 7/31 at Yosemite.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>--
>Sincerely
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