[pct-l] Thank you

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

Hi everyone-

Well, he's off.  I drove my husband, Darrell, to Campo yesterday and he's on 
the trail, with our dog.  He plans to hike to Kennedy Meadows, come home to 
work till the end of July, and then return to KM, without the dog, to hike the 
remaining miles in California.  Oregon and Washington will be next year.

Reading the book at the trailhead, we saw that there were two other hikers 
who began this weekend.  One person named J. Bradley Materick, also with a dog, 
started on the 7th; someone named Brian Parkin started yesterday, before we 
were there.

I want thank everyone on this list for your great sense of community and 
sharing.  One of the many ways that I've helped Darrell prepare is that I have 
been reading this list for many months now to glean info.  We have both been 
astounded at the amount of valuable information that is shared here.  Lots of our 
most valuable lists have come from these emails.  Things that have confirmed 
some choices that Darrell had already made, others that have give him pause to 
consider alternate techniques and approaches, and some things that frankly had 
not occurred to him at all.  We are really grateful.

Wanted you all to know that we spoke to the fellow at the Kennedy Meadows 
store this weekend.  He is there, on weekends, now until the last Saturday of 
April, when he will open full time.  For anyone who needs to know, the weather in 
Campo is unseasonably hot right now, in the 90's already.  Darrell will be 
calling me from his resupplies.  Whenever I have any useful trail information, 
I'll send it along to you.

Thank you all again...

Betsy