[BULK] - [pct-l] Scary trail sounds

[msaenz at mve-architects.com (Mike Saenz)]

Aircraft Encounter I
I was just past 3rd Gate when I heard a jet off in the distance.
Definitely military. The sound grew until I knew it would fly low and
close. Very close...
>From just over the ridge (I was about 100 feet below on the highway
side), an A-6E roared over so low that I could see the side-by-side
pilot/nav helmets and sun visors. The noise was deafening, even with my
hands clapped over my ears.
Considering Julian was about a 3 second flight from that point (the jet
was moving from the east/northeast toward the south/southwest), the
pilot must've been breaking some sort of flight path rule, being so
close and low to a residential area. Ground Pounder Bill and his
Grandson were on the trail just ahead of me.

Aircraft Encounter II
I was just scrambling back from bagging Jeans Peak (just south of San
Jacinto Peak), when a glider sailed over and caught a thermal just above
me. Another very close encounter. I waved at the two guys inside the
sailplane and they waved back and "wagged" the wings at me. It was so
close you could very easily hear the wind whooshing across the wings and
through the vents in it's canopy! It circled and swooped over me for
about ten minutes then dove back toward Palm Springs.

I can't decide which was cooler, the military jet in all it's power, or
the graceful and peaceful maneuvers of the sailplane.



Michael Saenz, Associate Partner
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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Matt
Ripperton
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 7:55 AM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [BULK] - [pct-l] Scary trail sounds

This has been an interesting thread.  I had forgotten about my scariest
trail sound until I read the digest today, someone said something about
a machine gun and someone else about Barrel Springs, at it brought this
rushing back...
 
After hoofing it through the blazing hot San Fillipe Hills in May of
1998, heavy load of water on my back (not as many caches back then!), I
stopped near Barrel Springs to camp.  I was exhausted, and soon fell
deeply asleep.  Next thing I know I'm sitting bolt upright, eyes about
to bug out of my head trying to see in the darkness, groping for the
light & my glasses, all because of a deafening sound outside.  The kind
of sound that's so deep and so loud you can actually FEEL it.  In the
few seconds it took for rational thought to kick in, I was sure the
world was ending.
 
Turns out it was several military helicopters flying very low, directly
overhead.  Those suckers are loud.
 
Ajax

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