[pct-l] Fwd: Bear Creek crossing 2010

[Scott Williams]

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From: Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bear Creek crossing 2010
To: Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>


Yah, hiker trash.  They're all alike.  I go in and get all wet to save
Mango's life and then get threatened with death just because It was so
funny I considered taking a picture of him upside down with his feet
straight up in the air and the rest of him all smashed against this big ol
log by the force of the water, before dragging him out of that mess.  And I
had to walk in wet shoes!  Humph!  And it was funny as hell, 'course he was
soaked, kind of drowned rat sort of hiker trash at that moment.

Shroomer

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>wrote:

> Watching Fuzzy Monkey's video, it seemed to be the same creek our group
> (which included Shroomer and Smiles)crossed on the Cascade Trail, just
> after it leaves the JMT / PCT, heading toward Red's Meadow.  However, Mile
> 868 is south of the VVR turnoff and the Cascade Trail starts around 890, so
> maybe I'm wrong.
>
>
>
> Those of you who enjoy Shroomer should be grateful that he pulled me out
> of a wedged-in fall in a shallow but swift creek near Bear Creek, before he
> pulled out his camera.  If he had left me there upside down and
> backwards, with water cascading over my head, while he took pictures, I
> would have killed him.
>
>
>
> Mango
>
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> *From: *"Scott Williams" <baidarker at gmail.com>
> *To: *"James Vesely" <JVesely at edmsupply.com>
> *Cc: *pct-l at backcountry.net
> *Sent: *Friday, March 16, 2012 10:15:50 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [pct-l] Bear Creek crossing 2010
>
> Good God I remember that crossing.  Smiles and I charged across and mid way
> yelled back at the others to find a better place.  Turning around was just
> as bad as continuing across, so we forged on, bent into the force of the
> current.  Upstream, we anchored ourselves to some vegetation and then
> started an arm in arm chain out into the creek.  As each of our group came
> across we could help them the last bit and the chain got longer, but the
> pain of that icy water.  Wow!
>
> Smiles kept her Eric the Black book in her pants pocket just like Fuzzy
> Monkey, and several times jumped in a stream and jumped right out again
> when she remembered her maps.   At least she had the book and could dry it
> out and continue using it.  I have to say, his books looked like hell after
> those little swimming episodes, but still worked fine, wet or dry and
> wrinkly.
>
> One other tip is to make sure you attempt a crossing like this in your
> hiking shoes or boots, no flip flops or camp shoes, and no way barefooted.
> And tighten your shoe laces before wading in that kind of fury, or you'll
> be hiking only partially shod out of the mountains as one dear friend had
> to do.
>
> Anyone hiking this year should take a look at this YouTube.  Even with the
> lower snow year, if a good warm spell hits the Sierra while you're there,
> this could be what you'll be facing.  If you come to a dangerous crossing
> in the afternoon, make camp as the water is always lower in the morning.
> The melt off slows down overnight due to the cold temps.  Icy cold shoes
> first thing in the morning is not pleasant, but it's much better than a
> knock down and swim in the afternoon.
>
> While camping one evening along the Tuolumne River in Lyell Canyon, the
> river had flooded its banks and come right into the meadow.  We all took a
> quick icy swim and had an easy out right onto the grass.  By the next
> morning it had fallen at least 2 feet.  It was that dramatic.
>
> Good to see Fuzzy Monkey again.
>
> Shroomer
>
>
>
>
> >
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