[pct-l] Poultry sheds at Mile 4.6?

[Matt Lyon]

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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