[pct-l] Stimulating Discussion

[elisenme2 at gmail.com (Carl & Judy Rush)]

Well while bending over to put in a tent stake I stuck my butt in a cactus.
Just got a couple of punctures ,could have been worse. Carl

On 11/10/05, Bighummel@aol.com <Bighummel@aol.com> wrote:
>
> It's a bit quiet on the list recently so how about relating your;
>
> 1) Funniest occurence on the trail: did someone put a rock into your pack
> or
> did someone fall face first due to some funny thing or . . .
>
> 2) Greatest / scariest adventure on the trail: going over Forester in a
> white
> out storm or crossing Evolution Creek and almost being swept to your
> death,
> etc.
>
>
> For me;
>
> 1) A humming bird found the blue color of my Kelty Tioga to be just a bit
> too
> fun and was buzzing around behind it as I was walking at 3.5 mph down the
> trail . . . when around he came to check out my nose, staying just an inch
> away
> . . . it flustered and surprized me so much that I completely lost my
> footing
> and went spralling off of the trail onto the side and sending all sorts of
> gear shooting off in every direction. Paul, my hiking partner, could not
> contain
> himself and laughed so hard that he cried and had to sit down.
>
> 2) Going alone across Forester in a white out storm and crossing the ice
> chute with a long handled ice axe and instep crampons. Then across to the
> 2 or 3
> short switchbacks on the other side, which were covered in ice. I then sat
> my
> pack down and pulled out a rope and tied one end to the top rail of my
> pack
> and the other to my belt. I started climbing up the 15 foot vertical wall
> of
> ice, clearing out hand and footholds that someone else had cut and been
> mostly
> iced over. The wind coming over the pass was horizontal and streaming snow
> like a shot gun. When I reached the top the wind tried to push me back
> over and
> down the chute but the ice axe had a firm hold and I pulled myself over
> and
> rolled down onto the north side a bit. I pulled my pack up and then
> discovered
> the sign at the pass visible down through the clear ice below me.
>
> Yee haa!!
>
> Strider
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