[pct-l] RE: Headlamps and Flashlights

[scrookham at hotmail.com (Sean Crookham)]

I use the Black Diamond Moonlight and love it. I have used it for, 
backpacking, camping, during power outages, working on cars, pretty much 
anything I need light for. I would definitely recommend the BD Moonlight to 
anyone searching for a reliable lightweight headlamp.

Tick


>From: John Coyle <jcoyle@sanjuan.edu>
>To: "'pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net'" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: [pct-l] RE: Headlamps and Flashlights
>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:37:29 -0800
>
>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:
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>    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>
>Message-ID: <011301c3a872$d04b4dc0$4f06f4d8@David>
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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
>To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
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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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