Re: [pct-l] PCT snow

[Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>]

At 05:40 PM 5/6/00 , Henry Shires wrote:
>-- I'd have to agree that snow is the greatest danger on the PCT, followed 
>closely by
>raging water.

I'd have to disagree, and put raging water a clear first, but then I've had 
several years of mountaineering experience, so the snow didn't really phase 
me. The water crossings scared the crap out of me. I got washed down stream 
twice....

The only place I felt endangered by snow was in Kerrick Canyon, not any of 
the high passes. The thing that scared me about Kerrick Canyon is the steep 
icy snow went right into the raging river at the bottom of the gorge. If I 
had traversed Kerrick canyon later in the day when the snow was softer, 
maybe it wouldn't have been a problem at all...

It is all a matter of experience, perspective and the conditions that 
happen to prevail at the hour you are there. That's why you can't take 
advice from any one person as the gospel truth.

-Brick

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