[pct-l] Thru-hikers left on the trail Nocona, Bald Eagle, Germinator, Debbie............................

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Ellinwood <rellinwood@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <metam01@earthlink.net>
> Date: 9/28/04 8:31:00 AM
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] Thru-hikers left on the trail   Nocona, Bald
Eagle,Germinator, Debbie............................
>
> Monte,
>
> < Does this make me a "Section Hiker"?
>
> Sounds like it....
Two big Sections..........1825 miles and 825 miles.
>
> Sorry about your legs.  What actually was wrong?
Blisters, blisters.........
Dried cracked heels
Heel wounds deep under caluses(still not healed)
Shin Splints/Stress Fractures  Both Legs
Toe nail Problems
Minor Toe Surgery
Pulled leg muscles
Twisted lower ankle
Poor shoe design piercing big toes (those haven't healed yet)
Torn calf muscles right leg for over a month still not healing
Left leg tendon from ankle to calf popping out with other complications
Shaved legs and probably six rolls of sports tape.
Ibuprofen every day
Lots of ice on motel room beds
Five doctors saying awful things like stay off your feet eight days, ten
days, two weeks, 20 days and maybe it's time to accept that you won't make
it to Canada this year.
>
> You say "Warner Springs."  You actually live in the Warner Springs
> environs?  
My phone exchange is Warner Springs.
My mailing address is Santa Ysabel.
 
I'm half way between the two and an equal distance from the Palomar
Mountain Post Office.
I identify myself as Warner Springs when it comes to the PCT.  As you're
coming into Warner Springs from Eagle Rock, you can see a lake (Lake
Henshaw) in the distance a little to the left.  I live there.  That's only
12 miles from downtown Warner Springs. 


Question: do you know of any place or person I could mail a
> food drop to next summer in Mt Laguna and in Warner Springs that could
> give me more flexibility on pick-up times than the P.O.?  Especially in
> Mt Laguna where the PO doesn't open til noon, but also in Warner
> Springs?
I feel the best resupply point from Warners Springs is Santa Ysabel.  The
Post Office has pretty good hours.  Theres a good little grocery store
(Don's Market), a good not overpriced restaurant, and a place that does
nothing but make Apple Pie (Julian Pie Company).
>From The Road (Hwy79) hitch south 15 miles where 79 ends in a "T"  Very,
very simple.  The post office is on your left.  The rest is on your right
all within about 50 yards.

I don't know anything about Mt. Laguna.  I carried my stuff from Campo
including an extra two days to hang out at the Kick-Off at Lake Morena. 
Some people dropped stuff off at the kick-off before hiking the first 20
miles from the boarder to Lake Morena.  Maybe someone else would know if
you can mail to the store there.  Since the first 20 miles were waterless
and hot,  you might want to consider lightening food for that day.  I heard
the store ran out of hiker food that weekend.
I'm probably not the person to ask on Mt. Laguna.



 I don't know my schedule for next year yet.  I'm thinking about hiking
down to the Kick-Off from here. Hopefully flip burgers again.   After
that????
Contact me then and I might be able to help.



Monty

>
> Thanks,  Bob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-
> > bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Monty Tam
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 1:46 PM
> > To: pct-l
> > Subject: [pct-l] Thru-hikers left on the trail Nocona, Bald
> Eagle,Germinator,
> > Debbie............................
> > 
> > Nocona and her husband, Bald Eagle, Germinator, Debbie Richardson,
> Sherpa, Crow, Chef, and
> > K-Too were in Southern Oregon around, before, or near the First.  They
> signed the register
> > at the boarder.  The register at Ashland Outfitters has much more
> info.  I think one of them
> > bought the last pair of DARK sock liners.  None left in the whole
> town.  I won't buy white.  I
> > never have to wash the black ones.
> > 
> > Germinator celebrated his 33rd birthday there.  One day's hike up the
> hill at Hyatt Lake,
> > Bald Eagle and Nocona left a note for Germinator and Debbie.  Sounded
> like Nocona's feet
> > were in pretty bad shape.
> > 
> > Dr. Christy Pruett, Ornithologist I met at Vermilion,  hopped off the
> trail at Donner Pass,
> > went to work two weeks in Alaska, then jumped back on the trail way
> behind the pack.  We
> > hiked Hat Creek Rim together.  She wanted to know where the nearest
> airport was.  I told
> > her where a couple were including one near Ashland.   She hiked to
> Ashland to complete the
> > State of California, went to Louie's and had a huge cheeseburger, saw
> a play and hopped on a
> > plane at the Medford Airport.
> > 
> > A couple weeks ago (9/12) in an obscure trail register where the old
> PCT (Stuart Falls Trail)
> > rejoins the new PCT a few miles south of Crater Lake,  there were very
> few thru-hiker
> > entries after 9/1.  I don't remember what names I saw.  The pages
> before had been
> > collected/removed.  It was raining.  I almost didn't stop myself.
> > The Mazama Village Store register had nothing.  I think the Post
> Office Register would have
> > had better Info.
> > 
> > I wouldn't know any of this if I hadn't fallen behind all the other
> thru-hikers.  For weeks I
> > had been signing the registers as "The Last Hiker".  I left a phone
> number to contact me if I
> > wasn't the last thru-hiker.  Still, no one has called.
> > 
> > I had 45 days down with leg and foot injuries and one day down from
> the Pancake Challenge.
> > My current injuries are a month old and refuse to get better.
> > It rained three days and my tarp was stolen from the Crater Lake
> campground.
> > Weather forecast looked dangerous for a man with no legs and no
> shelter.
> > I've been home ten days.
> > Saw my doctor.  She says  "Don't walk."     (at all)
> > I just came from my second All-You-Can-Eat Buffet.
> > 
> > I have 800 miles left to complete next year.  Does this make me a
> "Section Hiker"?
> > 
> > AND....WAS I.....  "The Last Hiker"?????
> > 
> > Monty Tam
> > The Last Hiker
> > Warner Springs
> > metam01@earthlink.net
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