Re: [at-l] bad weather

["W F Thorneloe, MD" <thornel@ibm.net>]

That sounds like a _very_ good hiking pace. Didn't you have the required 60 
pound pack when you started. Also, BTW, what year was your hike? That 
sounds a great deal like the storms of last year in Hall County.

OrangeBug
Atlanta, GA

At 01:47 PM 5/4/1999 -0500, Pat Villeneuve wrote:
>One of my very bad times came my second day out of Springer. As I hit
>Woody Gap, the sky opened, and I pretty much pitched on the spot. Threw
>whatever I could into my Eureka Gossamer and dove in at about 6pm. The
>storm raged for hours with wind roaring from my right. It was so noisy I
>couldn't even sleep. Late at night, the storm abated, and I slept for a
>few hours only to awaken to even more noise with an even stronger wind
>rushing from my left. I stayed in my tent 'till 10:00 the next morning.
>When I finally crawled out, I discovered that the wind had blown my
>ground cloth out from under the tent while I was in it.

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