[pct-l] Re: Early season Streams Techniques and problem creeks

[Bighummel at aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

It would be REALLY helpful when posting messages like this to note the year 
that you are referring to.  Conditions change not only day to day and week to 
week but radically from year to year.  Your experiences even last year may not 
be applicable to anything this year.

In a message dated 1/6/2004 8:21:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
aandg@telusplanet.net writes:
Like Ray E we used 'surfboard shoes' with a good rubber bottom and mesh top
for most of the stream crossings in 2003. However, sometimes our feet were
so wet from hiking through the snow that we did not bother changing shoes.
Hypothermia was not a problem in the High Sierra as the weather was
generally sunny and not too cold. We left KM on May 29 and reached Tuolomne
Meadows on June 19.