[pct-l] Re: PCT-L digest, Vol 1 #774 - 20 msgs

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Today's Topics:

   1. RE: Re: Southern Sierra trout (Reynolds, WT)
   2. Re: Burning Deserts (David hiking PCNST in bits)
   3. Re: Re: Southern Sierra trout (Randy Forsland)
   4. Re: Re: Southern Sierra trout (Steve Courtway)
   5. Fires in the desert. (Marge Prothman)
   6. Nut Butter Carrying System: the phone call
(Brett Tucker)
   7. Goal Oriented Hiking. (Paul E. Dietrich)
   8. Re: Nut Butter Carrying System: the phone call
(Slyatpct@aol.com)
   9. Re: Goal Oriented Hiking. (Jeffrey J. Olson)
  10. RE: Goal Oriented Hiking. (Jerry Goller)
  11. RE: Goal Oriented Hiking. (Marge Prothman)
  12. Re: Old PCT Books/Archives ? (Jeff Bohannon)
  13. Home made sleeping bag (maurer@earthlink.net)
  14. Re: Burning Deserts (Brick Robbins)
  15. Re: Goal Oriented Hiking. (ECPG)
  16. Re: Burning Deserts (christin pruett)
  17. Pooh Corner open for July, 2003 (Bill Person)
  18. New to the PCT (dsaufley@sprynet.com)
  19. Re: Section hike near I-10 for the end of
Febuary?
(Calchim@aol.com)
  20. Belden (Paul Schilke)

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Message: 1
From: "Reynolds, WT" <reynolds@iLAN.com>
To: "'tsimon10'" <tsimon10@cogeco.ca>,
pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Re: Southern Sierra trout
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:08:08 -0800

Not exactly......

The black fly works best in the late season. The green
mosquito works
best
in early season. However, my experience is that any
mosquito or fly
pattern
will work with a bubble.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: tsimon10 [mailto:tsimon10@cogeco.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:04 AM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Re: Southern Sierra trout


I'm happy that I could make such a controversial
statement that so many
would take the time disagree with me when I said
Southern Sierra trout
take
better to flies. I'm the type who goes to a party,
waits for everyone
to
have a few drinks, throws out a few controversial
remarks, then stands
back
and watches the fur fly. If you go to the Fishing
Outfitters in Bishop,
C.A., they and many others will tell you to use a
small black fly,
around
1/3 of an inch across. I forget the exact name. Oh!
And I caught one
t...h...i...s   l...o...n...g.

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:26:08 -0800 (PST)
From: David hiking PCNST in bits <pcnst2@oakapple.net>
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Burning Deserts

Actually what we are mostly talking about here is
California's
Mediterranean
coastal chaparal, which is not really very desert,
getting plenty of
rain
in the (normal) winter.    In most of San Diego
county, the PCT is
either
going through recently burned land with good views,
good wildflowers in
spring, and too much sun, OR is a trench through a
green tunnel of
chaparal with
few views and few flowers but better water trickles
and occasional
shade.   And this zone is indeed well adapted to fire.

One could thank the intransigence of the Tejon Ranch
real estate
development
company for the fact that the trail does pass through
some real desert
in Antelope Valley.    Here, fire is quite rare,
because there's not
enough
to burn.

The most catastrophically combustible zone is that at
the interface,
such as around Mt San Jacinto, where the wet winters
and scorching
summers
are competing, with the effect that in one year there
will be
relatively
lush growth, and a few years later a drought and
incendiary fall fire
season.

Hiking from the the San Jacinto River down to West
Palm Springs can be
done
in one day and one can see it all.


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Message: 3
From: "Randy Forsland" <randy_forsland@hotmail.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Re: Southern Sierra trout
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:22:08 -0800

Are you talking about artificial flies...or the real
thing ???
----- Original Message -----
From: "tsimon10" <tsimon10@cogeco.ca>
. If you go to the Fishing Outfitters in Bishop,
> C.A., they and many others will tell you to use a
small black fly,
around
> 1/3 of an inch across. I forget the exact name. Oh!
And I caught one
> t...h...i...s   l...o...n...g.


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Message: 4
From: "Steve Courtway" <scourtway@bpa-arch.com>
To: "tsimon10" <tsimon10@cogeco.ca>,
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Re: Southern Sierra trout
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:48:30 -0800

I was catching 'em on spinners SOOOO BIG THEY wouldn't
even fit in my titanium frying pan, so I had to throw
'em back.

----- Original Message -----
From: "tsimon10" <tsimon10@cogeco.ca>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:03 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Re: Southern Sierra trout


> I'm happy that I could make such a controversial
statement that so
many
> would take the time disagree with me when I said
Southern Sierra
trout
take
> better to flies. I'm the type who goes to a party,
waits for everyone
to
> have a few drinks, throws out a few controversial
remarks, then
stands
back
> and watches the fur fly. If you go to the Fishing
Outfitters in
Bishop,
> C.A., they and many others will tell you to use a
small black fly,
around
> 1/3 of an inch across. I forget the exact name. Oh!
And I caught one
> t...h...i...s   l...o...n...g.
>
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Message: 5
From: "Marge Prothman" <marge@prothman.com>
To: "Pct-L" <pct-L@backcountry.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:01:32 -0700
Subject: [pct-l] Fires in the desert.

Hi,
Just remember if you are hiking along and you smell
tires burning:

>From my journal:
" I start observing what is going on around me.

First, it is the smell like someone is burning tires
or creosote?  I
remember reading that Chaparral bushes smell like
creosote when
burning. I
look up at the sky and what I thought was a welcome
cloud cover is in
actuality smoke. Now this all has my attention...I
climb up hurriedly
to the
next ridge and have a look.  I can see over two small
ridges from me,
is a
big fire, though all I can see is the smoke, planes
and helicopter
dumping
water.

Cheers,

Marge   [The Old Gal]
http://www.prothman.org/marge


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Message: 6
Reply-To: "Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@earthlink.net>
From: "Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@earthlink.net>
To: "Pacific Crest Trail"
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:03:11 -0500
Subject: [pct-l] Nut Butter Carrying System: the phone
call

>>Playtex will send you additional sealing discs at no
charge, but it
takes
a
while. 800-222-0453
Here's a URL you thought you'd never see on this list:
http://www.playtexbaby.com/  Look for disposable
bottles.  There's an
illustration on page two of a pdf:
http://www.playtexbaby.com/bottlesandpacifiers/howto/pdf/DispStartSetBroc.p=
d
f <<


Uh, hello, Playtex?

"Yes?"

Yes, hello. Saw your webpage and pdf. I'm walking to
Canada, and am
having a
real problem with oil separation in my peanut butter.
Could you please
send
more nipples?

"Wow, another one. Yes, we can help you, sir. Would
you like us to ship
to
the AT or PCT?"

PCT, please. General delivery to Lone Pine, CA. It's a
long way off
trail,
but I'm having a major problem with my baby bottles.
It's critical that
we
resolve the problem before I head into snow country.

"No problem, sir. I understand. We'll send out a
replacement pack of
peanut,
er, I mean nipples, right away."

Great! You're a lifesaver! Now if only you could fix
my rain jacket, as
well. It's made of Gore-tex though, not Playtex.
Ha-ha-ha.

"Ha ha. I wish we could help you out on that, sir. But
yes, it's two
different companies."

Gore-tex sucks.

"Thank you for calling Playtex. Have a nice hike."

*click*








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Message: 7
From: "Paul E. Dietrich" <cactus_paul@earthlink.net>
To: "pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net"
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:25:12 -0800
Subject: [pct-l] Goal Oriented Hiking.

I am always fascinated by discussions like Appalachian
Trail vs.
Pacific
Crest Trail, or Thru Hiking vs. Section Hiking.

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