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[pct-l] tarp, tent or something, but not nothing



Agree..they lucked out. Mountains can create their own weather too
without a front per se coming in.


R

At 06:19 AM 2/4/03 -0600, yogi hicker wrote:
>Three days before Fleishman took those photos, I was on top of Baden Powell
>on a hot sunny day.  We had no clue a storm was coming.  The weather is
>strange in the mountains, and if you're not prepared, you're asking for
>trouble.
>
>In 2001 my friends bounced their rain gear, pack covers, and tarps/tents 400
>ahead from Big Bear City to Kennedy Meadows.  They were lucky.  We didn't
>have any rain or snow.  It worked out for them, but I still think it was a
>stupid thing to do.
>
>yogi
>
>
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>Brett Tucker  Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@earthlink.net wrote:
>>...
>
>Yes, here are a couple of my photos taken in late May 2002 that
>demonstrate that bad weather *does* occasionally hit Southern California.
>(They also happen to be two of my favorite photos.) These are both on
>Baden-Powell (San Gabriels).
>
>http://www.wyncote.net/photos/image-view?image_id=153487&album_id=147927&st
art_with=37&display2=136
>http://www.wyncote.net/photos/image-view?image_id=153502&album_id=147927&st
art_with=37&display2=137
>
>Fleischman
>
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