[pct-l] Slightly tongue-in-cheek, some lesser hazards.

[calliger at infolane.com (calliger@infolane.com)]

The flashbacks are worse when it lightnings out for me!!

Brother Bear


On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:02:57 -0800, Randy Forsland wrote
> Well put..
> 
> My two scariest moments on the PCT also had nothing to do with 
> bears,snakes,bugs, snow or cougars.
> 
> The first was an encounter with a huge buck that leapt out onto the trail 
> and faced me with its head lowered and its rack poised to skewer me. I had 
> been hiking from Reds Meadow to Thousand Island lakes and I think that the 
> sound of my hiking poles striking the granite rocks must have sounded like a 
> couple of young bucks going at it. This buck that I met looked like he 
> wanted to take on the winner of that contest. Luckily, the big fellow looked 
> up at me with a puzzled look and then crashed through the brush and was 
> gone...My heart was in my throat for hours after that..."The first thruhiker 
> to be killed by Bambi"..what an epithet.
> 
> The second incident was when I camped north of Chester under those Sugar 
> Pine trees...The wind picked up quite a bit that night and I awoke to the 
> sound of those huge sugar pine cones crashing to the ground near me..I 
> wasn't hit but I didn't sleep very well that night....had flashbacks of Nam 
> though ;-)
> 
> Redwood
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Corky Corcoran" <corcoran@corky.cc>
> 
> >
> > So, I'll take my chances with the cats, dogs, bears and bugs.  It's the 
> > trees swaying in the wind at night that scare me.  And  the homo 
> > marginally sapiens looking for some mammal to blow the hell out of. 
> > Scares the bejesus out of me.
> >
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