[pct-l] Black and White trail obstacle

Hurricane Helen had a different experience last week near Castle Crags. After ambling 15 or 20 minutes and for only a couple hundred yards behind a slow moving skunk, in an area where there was no way to get around it, she rolled a pebble up the trail to get it moving. It turned around for first a face-off, pawed the ground like a bull, then charged. This could have been in Caddyshack. She fended it off with a Leki, relieved when it ran off, rabies in the back of her mind. She didn't worry about being sprayed because it was facing her. She later learned from a ranger that a skunk faces their adversary first, then sprays by doing a 180 - up to 20 feet. Helen is now in Seiad Valley contemplating her good fortune while partner Bearbait nurses a sore foot. Then on to Oregon.