[pct-l] PCT-l and flame wars

[Brick Robbins]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:57 PM,  <ned at mountaineducation.org> wrote:
> My kind of guy!
>
> Mid-July of 1995. Man, I don't remember that year from another up there.

The say memory is the first thing to go. Here is the annual snow
graph. 1995 was one of the highest snowfall years in the last 25

http://www.thestormking.com/Weather/Sierra_Snowfall/2015_Snowfall_Plot_web.jpg

The snow was so deep that between KM South and Toulomne I only saw a
handful of people. There were so few that the backcountry rangers were
super friendly and just happy to have someone to talk to.

And everyone freaks-out about snow. But snow is not the problem. The
problem is water.

This was the trail crossing just past Evolution Meadows. I didn't
cross there, as that would have been fatal. Per the advice of the
rangers, I swam the creek upstream in the meadow where the water was
slow, but still deep enough I had to swim.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/awOVItDUecCmcyOY2