[pct-l] Re: San Felipe Hills alternate route?

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Carol "Brawny" Wellman, in her book, "My Journey to Freedom and Ultralight 
Backpacking", wrote:  "It takes a measure of misery to make memories."  Some 
truly wonderful memories have come out of the San Felipe Hills.  Thanks, all, for 
sharing them.  

It must be here, facing that climb up out of Scissors Crossing, that many of 
our AT graduates who have heard of our relatively easy, stock-graded trail, 
first realize that the PCT is going to be a different challenge.  I for one vote 
to keep it.  In their way, the San Felipe Hills are as impressive a part of 
the PCT experience as the Sierras or the Pasayten Wilderness.    
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In a message dated 1/21/04 11:38:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
chwillet@indiana.edu writes:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Gray wrote:
> 
> >... That night I
> >camped near the (empty) water cache (Bar-S-Bar Ranch?), and upon
> >returning from the side trail to another cache with some water, found my
> >camp spot had grown by about 7 people. For the first time on the trail,
> >I got to talk to fellow hikers before bedding down, which was very
> >pleasant. The next day I pulled my first 20 mile day, making it all the
> >way to Warner Springs...
> 
> Hey, that must have been Me, Glory, Tom, and Jenny that joined you 
> that night.  It was pretty bastard hot that day on the walk to the cattle
> gate where we found your tent. I remember being amazed that I could find
> no shade at all in the hills until about 4 in the afternoon, when the 
> sun got low for the hills to cast just a bit of a shadow. Tom was 
> hidden next to a rock, just past which I found Jenny pressed up against a 
> bush.  I was eventually able to lean against a 50 degree slope in the 
> shade for a little rest.
> 
> Suge
> 
>