[at-l] Pittsburgh

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> 
> I don't know who those imposters were. They wore the same uniforms as 
> the regular guys, but didn't play the way the regular guys play. I 
> hope the regular guys are back next week... 

I don't know who was in the Jag uniforms either but I hope they stay :>))
Clyde is happy
Sandy could care less
Simba is happy all the timeFrom spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com  Tue Oct 18 14:17:20 2005
From: spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com (Jim and/or Ginny Owen)
Date: Tue Oct 18 15:20:47 2005
Subject: [at-l] Night Hike
Message-ID: <BAY112-F2831E2670223328F76BE2A0710@phx.gbl>

I rarely hike at night, except by accident, as my night vision isn?t all 
that good and I hate setting up camp in the dark.  However this thread 
brought back a couple of really good memories of hiking in the not so dark 
of night:

	On the PCT there is a section where the trail crosses the Antelope Valley, 
part of the Mojave Desert.  It is very very hot and totally exposed.  Most 
PCT hikers do that stretch at night, if at all possible.  Jim and I waited 
out the day in the shade of Jack Fair?s garage, chatting with that very 
unusual trail character (unfortunately, no longer an option) and left at 
about 5:00.  We walked for a few hours, stopped to eat dinner, then 
continued until about midnight.  The trail follows the buried LA Aquaduct, 
with a dirt road beside it, so the tread was easy, aside from some odd 
little two foot walls that crossed the aquaduct every half mile or so.   
There was no moon that night, just millions of stars and a satellite that 
was breaking up, dropping blue and green showers for about an hour.  We 
could see lights from a city a few miles away, and an occasional ranchhouse 
? but otherwise it was just us, the stars and the desert.

	Two years ago Jim and I went on a three-day trip over New Years in the 
Shenandoahs.  On our first day we started late, and because it gets dark so 
early in January, we ended up doing the last couple of miles in the dark.   
The trail we were on passed some waterfalls and it was fascinating to see 
how they were luminescent in the moonlight.  I almost felt like I could take 
pictures and the bright shining water would show up, they glowed so.  
Although it was something of a pain trying to find a place to camp in that 
little canyon, that nighthike was one of the highlights of the trip.




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