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

[Daniel Zellman]

Well, that's a bit of a relief, I must say!

Call me a Luddite, but I find it disturbing to think there WOULD be cell
service for all but a few hundred miles of trail.

But I guess it's probably little more than a vain hope to think it might be
possible to escape the tyranny of cell phones even on the PCT in this day
and age [he writes from his cell phone ... ah, the irony, the irony....]

-dz

On Monday, February 18, 2013, Scott Williams wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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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-dz (mobile)