[pct-l] Rock Slide

[Edward Anderson]

I hope that someone will caution the man with the mules before he gets there. I usually was not aware of stock-impassible obstacles until I got there. Large down trees, especially, could take me a long time to get past - if I could get past at all.  During my PCT ride from M. to C. I had to cut more than 60 trees blocking the PCT. I found a way around many, many, more. These were obstacles that barely slowed the hikers down. That's one of the reasons why it takes so much longer to ride the PCT on a horse than it takes to hike it. The other is all the time you must allow for the horse to graze and to care for him.


I hiked through Fuller Ridge with a friend last winter.  He demonstrated for me how he could quickly extinguish his alky stove flame. He just dropped his cooking pot down over it to smother the flame. If you have your dinner in the pot it would be a real mess. Devising a cap of some kind would be a good idea. In many areas of National Forests, I think that stoves used in the back country must have shut-off valves. You can't use wood-burning portable stoves or build camp fires either. 

MendoRider-Hiker



________________________________
 From: william jennings <mrjenn at hotmail.com>
To: PCT L <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:04 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Rock Slide
 

A slide occurred south of Red Tahquitz and has been passable for trail users, but stock cannot get through per Idyllwild Federal Ranger Station  A fellow with two mules was spotted below Lyons Peak yesterday moving north and may be unaware.  No postings at SH 74 or anywhere.  The same office isssued a statement that alky stoves were off limits in the San Jacinto Wilderness.  Monte, is there anyway a cap could be devised to smother the stove to offset the requirement of turn-off control?                           
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