[pct-l] Poultry sheds at Mile 4.6?

[Ron Graybill]

Sure enough: See the chicken scene
here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWXgtJP1IPs

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Matt Lyon <lyonlandscaping at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not gonna lie, first thought I had was Napoleon Dynamite when I heard
> massive chicken houses.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:28 AM, shon mcganty <smcganty at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I did a 3-day hike Feb 1st (Southern Terminus to Lauguna Mtns) and saw
>> these sheds too.  I don't remember them from my thru hike, must be fairly
>> new.  No, I wouldn't get off the PCT to try to get water there, I think it
>> would be a waste to energy to hike extra miles to get water at only mile
>> 4.5.
>>
>> One thing I learned from my hike is to bring twizzers and do tick
>> checks.  I must have flicked off 30-35 ticks from my legs in the first two
>> days.  I never saw a tick on my NOBO or SOBO hike here, so I wasn't sure if
>> there are more of them in Feb. vs. May and October or what.  I did constant
>> tick checks, and always found them before they bit/dug in.  At Long Canyon
>> creek I sat down to eat lunch, and I found a mutant tick that made me yelp
>> in fear and flick it off immediately.  It was huge, twice the size of any
>> tick I'd been seeing, with a round dome-like shape back, with two or three
>> or four black dots.  One part of my brain yelled "tick" and flicked it
>> off before the higher functioning part of the brain realized it was just a
>> ladybug.  Then I looked around and there were several hundred lady bugs in
>> the grasses around me.
>>
>> Anywho, have a good hike out there everybody.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>>  From: Ron Graybill <rgraybill44 at gmail.com>
>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 7:31 AM
>> Subject: [pct-l] Poultry sheds at Mile 4.6?
>>
>> At about Mile 4.6, if one looks south across the nearby railroad tracks,
>> one can see a large collection of long sheds, 15 to be exact (best seen on
>> Google Earth).  Does anyone know what sort of an operation goes on there?
>> I'm guessing they are sheds housing thousands of chickens, but who knows?
>> Before I started my section hike, I wondered if one could simply get off
>> the trail, cross the tracks, and get some water there.  But wow! that
>> would
>> be an ordeal, as the terrain is very steep and rough between the trail and
>> this poultry farm (if indeed that's what it is).
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