[pct-l] poison oak

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

The chapparal is FULL of poison oak.  If it weren't for the Trail Gorillas clearing the brush, you WOULD be crawling through it most of the way to the Sierras! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>
Sent: Mar 2, 2005 6:38 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: RE:  [pct-l] poison oak

At 05:42 PM 3/2/05, Mike Saenz wrote:
>Yogi- I'm betting that you caught poison oak north of Sierras. To
>accidentally brush up against it in Southern California, you have to be
>crawling through a lot of green brush rather blindly...

Not true. There is lots of Poison Oak south of Lake Morena, even on the 
trail descending into Houser Canyon. When you traverse into the gullies on 
the descent, you will notice moss on the granite: that is plenty of water 
for P.O. You will also find lots of it anywhere you may stop to get water, 
and not just on the bank of the creek.

The one saving grace is that you don't see much of it above 4000-5000ft

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