Re: [pct-l] happy holidays and hello from Will

["R.J. Calliger (510.502.5552)" <calliger@infolane.com>]

Merry Christmas to all.

I cache water "**everywhere**" and think it is very logical and ok with the
envrioment, etc etc. Especially in dry years.

The 133 year Moon was FABULOUS at 8000 feet too near Sonora Pass..
zilch on snow...I am off for some climbing and hiking in Yosemite again...
and to relish Tioga Pass Road (Hwy 120 to./from Lee Vining/Yosemite Valley
and points west!

If anyone ventures by leave at note at Site #28 or drop by for some XMAS
cheer...

Rich


At 5:51 PM -0000 12.24.99, William M. Stenzel wrote:
>Peace on Earth and to the PCTA,
>
>March starts? Electronic topos? Oh, well, I guess it's worth a try.
>
>After two long jaunts on the PCT, I've grown so enamored of the Sierras that
>I'm now working about six miles from the path near Donner Pass. If this
>snowpack remains this small, this will be the year for lots of successful
>thru-hikes. I'll probably take a few weeks off of work to hike north from
>Donner to get a few hundred of the miles I've "missed" on the trail.
>
>This summer, I will tenatively be available for rides to and from Soda Springs
>for package pickup.
>
>Also see you runners for the Smugglers Run. I will likely cache some water
>where I found it helpful last year (along that long section before Walker
>Pass,
>and near Antelope Valley). For those who believe water caching is wrong  -- I
>don't. As I said, this may end up being a dry year.
>
>will stenzel
>
>     Longtime visitors of this site may have seen some of my journals at the
>n2backpacking site. Much of what I wrote, especially in the high sierra, was
>lost in their hands, and I ended up stopping my thru-hike to visit Newfoundand
>and the French islands of St. Pierre and Michelon.
>    Hiking through the high sierra in June gave me a totally new
>perspective on
>the thru-hike attitute. I was following a typical itinerary and wandered up
>there without a clue as to how extreme the early season conditions really are.
>Forester Pass was a twenty foot cornice of ice and snow, and my two week
>running-shoe mountaineering trip began. The negative: fear, frustration, and
>frostbite. The positive: newfound strength, a sterling life experience, an
>incredible wilderness journey, and a real respect for the great range of
>light.
>
>
>A lot of advice will fly around on this site about start times and worries
>about the desert. I have to say, despite the desire to get out there
>hiking, is
>to worry about the northern snowpack first. I'll try to get some of my photos
>scanned to make my point.
>
>Have a wonderful holiday, everyone; the brightest moon in 133 years was quite
>amazing at 6000 feet -- I think it bodes well for a bright new year.
>
>
>
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