[pct-l] Music on the Trail and Rain Gear

[Scott Williams]

We didn't have cel service for days at a time all the way to Canada.  You
will pick it up in most towns and hit and miss on trail but the dead zone
wasn't just the first 300 miles, at least not for my Verizon cel.

As for rain gear, I used mine more in the lower deserts than in the San
Jacintos and that was just due to the vagaries of the weather in 2010.  We
got snowed on 3 times in the desert but never in the desert mountains.
What that meant was that we were wearing our rain jackets on overgrown
chaparral trails.  I started out with a Dry Ducks jacket which is heavier
than your one dollar plastic, but still pretty weak stuff, and the brush
tore it to shreads in a day or two of use.  After 2 weeks on trail I went
to KO and bought a real rain jacket that lasted me to Canada.  I used a
light weight rain jacket that also doubles for the wind jacket plus a mylar
umbrella on the rest of the PCT in 2010 and on the CDT in 2012.

Some of the coldest and most inclement weather of the whole PCT hike was in
the deserts, and I don't mean the desert mountains.   If you plan on
heavier rain gear for the Sierra, I'd start with it right off as the trail
in the Sierra is much more open and brush free than some of the desert
trails.  Try and push your way through chamise or manzanita overgrown trail
while it's snowing or raining and you may not be wearing plastic for too
long.

Shroomer
 On Feb 18, 2013 8:16 AM, "Nathan A" <nathan4517 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> My wife and I are going to bring our 16GB Iphones to use for camera, music
> player, Audiobook player ect.
>
> Obviously having enough space for everything is going to become an issue
> quickly  and I just wanted to share some ideas we have and any hear if
> anyone has been successful with this approach.
>
> I went a little crazy with signing up for cloud storage through Dropbox(2GB
> Free), Google Drive (5GB Free), and Box(Got a promo with 50GB Free).
>
> We will be using Dropbox to upload all of our photos then family back home
> will pull them off the drive weekly for us and burn them to a CD.  We can
> then delete all of the photos from our phone for the next section of trail.
>
> I will upload extra copies of Halfmiles Maps, Cell Reception Reports,
> Resupply Spreadsheet, ect as backups to Google Docks as needed.
>
> Finally, I will upload all of my music and audio books to Box and as I find
> WiFi in towns I will just download whatever audio books or music I am
> interested in.  I have not bought the app yet but they do sell a $2 audio
> player that I still need to play with.
>
> Looking over the WiFi report it seems like there is easily accessible WiFi
> all over the trail other than perhaps the 1st 300 miles.
>
> Has anyone else had experience with this?
>
> Completely different question: I am thinking of bringing a wind jacket,
> Mylar umbrella, and just a cheep $1 plastic emergency poncho as my rain
> gear until Kennedy Meadows. Obviously my biggest concern is the San
> Jacinto's. Does this seem sufficient rain coverage for the amount of rain
> typically seen on this section of trail?
>
> Thanks Everyone and see you in a few months!
> Nathan
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