[pct-l] Fwd: [SpiritEagle]Update: Flight of the Spirit Eagle

[Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>]

>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:55:04 -0500
>To: spiriteagle@magenta.circumtech.com
>From: kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>
>Subject: [SpiritEagle]Update: Flight of the Spirit Eagle
>
>
>Word in from the Owens on the PCT!
>
>Mile two..Ginny twisted her ankle....alas the dangers of lightweight
>footwear if you don't have strong ankles....bummer.  It swollen and
>hurts but on the mend and still moving north.  Welll...sort of north.
>Everyone talks about the easier grade on the PCT....it translates into
>a LOT of twisting and turning and back and forthing.  They've done
>about a hundred and ten trail miles but doubt that they are more
>that 30 liner miles north.  At least that's far enough north to be out
>of the border area.  They had two encounters with illegals.  One with
>a small group at dusk, and another group moved past their camp at
>about 3AM.  No trouble other than a restless night.  Lucky that, as
>it turns out, they ran into another hiker who was chased!  He was
>also lucky as he was very near a line cabin and locked himself in!
>He relates a restless night as his pursuers repeatedly tried to get in the
>cabin throughout the night.  Yikes!!!!  Mugged on the trail!  Come morning,
>they were gone and he did report the incident at his first opportunity.
>
>As to weather, believe it or not, they've had fog banks and rain (shades 
>of the AT),
>as well as the more typical desert weather.  Today was probably the worst day
>temp wise as they expect it to be in the 90's.  They've already seen more 
>thrus
>than they did all last year on the CDT.  Some remarkable people.....one hiking
>with Parkinson's disease and another terminally ill with cancer, who quit 
>chemo
>to spend his end on the trail.
>
>The desert has been blooming or at least the cactii are <grin>.  Noted 
>wildlife
>included two non poisonous snakes and some turkeys and a naked hiker who
>was kind enough to put on his skirt when he neared them. The watersources 
>that the
>guide suggest should be running were....although waning.  Specifically 
>Hauss (SP?)
>which Ginny feels may have another week to ten days till it's gone unless 
>there is more
>rain.  In Cherry canyon, they found water 1/4 mile UPSTREAM rather than down.
>They have caches but they seem to be about half gone already.
>
>That's it for this report!  Next word should come Sun or Mon.
>
>
>
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>Contact Jim or Ginny directly at spiriteagle99@hotmail.com (Jim and/or 
>Ginny Owen)
>
>For list related problems, please contact listwright@circumtech.com or 
>kahley7@ptd.net (no need for both at once...)
>
>***Writings of Jim and Ginny Owen:
>
>The Thru Hiking Papers
>      <http://trailwise.circumtech.com/thruhikingpapers/default>
>Adventures of the SpiritEagle at Glacier National Park
>      <http://trailwise.circumtech.com/montana/default>

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