[pct-l] Scissors Crossing phobia

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

Ah.....The San Felipes in December....sorta like Paris in the Spring?

Someone posted a photo last year of tall verdant green grasses and
wildflowers swaying in the cool Spring breeze...in the San Felipes!

 "...as the trail is relatively easy going."

If you call "easy" as a tortuous serpentine trail that contours through
each and every nook and cranny of those blasted hills.
At times, you can call out to someone on the trail just across a canyon,
but an hour or two ahead of you!

Heh-heh-heh....The dreaded San Felipes...


I posted this before, but it's worth repeating: There's a ranch house
maybe 2-3 miles east of 3rd Gate where a hose spigot is!
If Charley's cache is dry, it's a short downhill walk to the ranch house
and emergency water.


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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Matt Maxon
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:48 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net; Alan L Nelson
Cc: aln@skypoint.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scissors Crossing phobia

Alan
I had alway much dreaded this segment and it was the last hunk in my
SoCal Section hike to complete

Until December `05 when I hiked it finally

I started at 7:00 am on the 3rd and came out on S22 on the 4th @ 8:45am
could have made it in one day but planned 2 so I didn't rush it. It was
quite chilly up there in december and kinda wished I'd brought a better
sleeping bag but it was just one night....

N or S direction IMO wouldn't make much of a difference and I made good
time as the trail is relativly easy going.
The `05 data book has the distance at 23.9 miles I made it 23.35. Whats
a few 10th of a mile..... I measured from the center line of SR-78 to
the center line of S22

Just go for it....

worse comes to worse you could bail out @ 13.38 miles and down the
firebreak to S2, just before the water cache @ 13.56 miles. (This is how
the water is hauled in)

Trail90
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan L Nelson" <aln@skypoint.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Cc: <aln@skypoint.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:43 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Scissors Crossing phobia


>
> Hi All, let me explain.
>
> I have this phobia about Scissors Crossing (S.C.)  In 1999 I was a 
> northbound PCT hiker who got his butt kicked in the heat of So. Cal.  
> By the time I got to S.C., I took a nice detour to Julian to get out 
> of the heat.  Problem is - that I got seduced back into the real world

> after calling back home and commiserating about the heat out in wacky 
> California (I hail from Minnesota.)
>
> So I never got any further than S.C.  In 2004 I had planned on 
> resuming the trek from S.C. but got cold feet at the last moment.  
> Really cold feet - as in the last moment before heading out to the 
> airport. So I never went.
>
> On many business trips out to So.Cal., I'd drive out to S.C. and do 
> some exploring.
> I'd tell myself that it would be easy to start again (in the future) 
> given that I'd be starting out "fresh" with lots of water and a new 
> attitude.  But the phobia
remains.
>
> (On one trip in July - I stood outside my car on highway 87 and 
> marveled at the heat.
> If I stood into the wind - the front of my shirt was blown dry but the

> back side was immediately soak in perspiration.  If I turned around, 
> my back would dry and my front would get soaked. Now THAT is what I 
> call HOT!)
>
> So my question to the good folks on the PCT-L:  What do you think 
> about me doing a southbound mini-snippet hike from Warner Springs to 
> S.C. just to get this phobia out of the way ... and then return some 
> other year to start anew at Warner
Springs?
>
> I'm picking a southbound direction because downhill always seems 
> easier than uphill.
> Please confirm that I'm reading my topos correctly.  :-)
>
> If I were to do this, what months in the Spring and/or Fall would you 
> recommend?
>
> Thanks for all your input.
>
> -Al "album" Nelson
>
>
>
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