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[pct-l] RE: Headlamps and Flashlights

For some reason I have become something of a gear head when it comes to
headlamps and flashlights for hiking.  I have purchased so many lately that
my wife thinks I need to attend the next FA(Flashlights Anonymous) meeting.
The only reason I can get away with buying so many is that she spends at
least as much on her aging 21 year old cat as I do on flashlights(How much
longer can that thing last?--When it finally flies home no more
flashlights!) I am particularly fascinated with the led models and one of my
favorites is the Princeton Tec Aurora; however, I just purchased The new
Black Diamond Zenix and I believe this will be my new favorite--for a while
at least.  It is very bright for an LED, although a little heavier at 4.9 oz
than the Aurora(2.8oz).  Sometimes I like a bright light to identify animals
at night, and I try not to shine it in other hikers eyes to avoid blinding
them and ruining their night vision.  I always take a small Pulsar II coin
type(7 grams) for a backup and could use it for a main light if I was going
ultralight. Does anybody use the colored led lights?  I prefer the white or
slightly blue, but have heard that some people prefer the green or red ones.
I would be interested in hearing what people are using out there and why.

John Coyle  
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Today's Topics:

   1. FEMA and insurance (Robert B Smith)
   2. Pink snow (Eric Yakel)
   3. Numbness (Eric Yakel)
   4. Re: PCT with a dog? (Hiker)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:20:23 -0600
From: "Robert B Smith" <rsmithat99@cox.net>
Subject: [pct-l] FEMA and insurance
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
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I sure don't know about the fires and all but when we were hit by hurricane
Opal in 1995 it was our own private insurance that covered our losses. We
did get a low interest loan  from FEMA to cover uninsured losses. The loan
was at 4 percent interest and we paid back every cent of it. Just as our
neighbors did also. If anyone around here got free money I sure am not aware
of it.  I admit that 4 percent was better than we could have gotten in the
private market but still the Government made money on the loan. 

Combined work time /  tax paying time for my wife and I is about 75 years. 
In our neighborhood it must be about 400 years at least. we are all older
folks. We choose to live on a large body of water and we pay very high
insurance rates because of our choice. 

Take care and see you up the trail .
Waterboy  
 



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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:42:35 -0800
From: "Eric Yakel" <eyakel@earthlink.net>
Subject: [pct-l] Pink snow
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
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The Dr's. right.  The pink snow will give you the runs.  By the way, to
bring it up for all of us listers, did you read the article in Backpacker
and the one before that in the PCTA magazine on water purity and
purification.  A must read.  In short it says your chances of getting the
crud from a backcountry water source are slim and none.  My two cents, I've
hiked the Sierras for 35 years and only use my filter at lakes that aren't
draining well (Chickenfoot Lake in Southern Sierras).  Never had a single
problem.
P.S. - Don't eat the yellow snow either.
                                        Eric Yakel

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:56:18 -0800
From: "Eric Yakel" <eyakel@earthlink.net>
Subject: [pct-l] Numbness
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The same thing occassionally happens to me.  Was it always uphill when you
got numb?  Seemed to be for me.  I believe it is a combination of age( I'm
49), the pressure of the hip belt on that artery that goes near the inside
of your hips, and most of all altitude.  It never seems to happen to me on
lower elevation hikes.
                                              E.Y.

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:58:29 -0800
From: Hiker <hiker@godlikebuthumble.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT with a dog?
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
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At 07:14 PM 11/10/03, Marshall Karon wrote:
>The National Parks (read High Sierras) don't allow dogs nor does Castle
>Craig State Park.

Actually there is a Dog Trail through Castle Crags state park. Not quite 
the same route as the PCT, but you can hike it as an alternate if you want 
to stay legal.

You will most certainly never see a ranger in Anza Borrego State park, and 
you are just barely within the borders there.

You will most certainly see rangers in Sequoia/Kings NP and Yosemite NP. 
They WILL give you a ticket, and ask you to exit the park in the shortest 
way out. If that is back the way you came, then you are fooked.

I met a couple of dogs in NorCal that seemed to be pretty happy, having 
hiked all the way from Campo, so don't let the nay-sayers keep you down.


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