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

[m.karon at comcast.net (Marshall Karon)]

Good point on stating the year. However, even a few days makes a difference
in water levels and conditions in the same year. When you are out there, you
need to deal with what you experience.

Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@comcast.net
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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Re: Early season Streams Techniques and problem creeks


> 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.
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