[pct-l] Seirra runs

[yogilists at hotmail.com (yogi yogi)]

A lot of people were sick in the early Sierra in 2003, too.  I got hit hard. 
  We all assumed we picked something up at KM.  Maybe from sharing food, 
maybe from one of the restaurants, who knows.

I was buying into the hiker box theory but then Tangent brought up a good 
point.  There are hiker boxes everywhere, and this problem is specific to 
one stretch of trail.  It seems like there is an obvious connection with the 
early Sierra and people getting sick.  At least in 2002 and 2003.  There's 
got to be a source for this.  Maybe a water source prior to KM?  And it 
doesn't sound like giardia.  The people who I know who've had giardia are 
sick for a long time.  At least for longer than the people we know of who 
were sick in the early Sierra.

yogi

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At 01:49 AM 11/7/2003 -0500, CMountainDave at aol.com wrote:
> > Regardless, the effect is the same. I can name a dozen hikers form the
> > class of '02 who got it bad in the Sierra. Before the Sierra, I can 
>think
> > of only one person who got the runs.
>
>Could have been something picked up communally at Kennedy Meadows. 
>Scrounging
>through a hiker box, for instance

It's possible, but doesn't explain why this didn't happen with similar
frequency anywhere else. I met an '01 hiker (Rufus) who trained with me
before my hike. He warned me, "Many people get sick in the Sierra." He had
no idea why.

But now that I think about it, It took me 4 days to get from KM to the
Vidette Meadow where I met my friends and took ill. If it was giardia or
crypto, I likely contracted it before arriving at KM. If it was food
poisoning, the timing seems a bit long.

You raise a good point though, I also plan to picky in what I take from
hiker boxes, too. No opened bags this time, just sealed items.

Tangent

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