[pct-l] tarp, tent or something, but not nothing

[Brett Tucker" <blisterfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brett Tucker)]

Unless I were invited to camp on the floor of my local backcountry
outfitter, where I could always hasten inside a floor model tent if the
emergency sprinkler system should come on during the night, I would not buy
into the notion that my wild nights spent sleeping in the open come without
the need to purchase "extra insurance." Even in a recycled air environment
such as southern California. Better yet, sew your backcountry insurance in
the form of a lightweight tarp.

These links are ridiculously abstruse, but if you can manage to paste them
into your browser, witness scenes from a 3 day snowstorm that hit
California, particularly So Cal, in early June of 1999 - just in time for
the arrival of thru-hikers. These two photos I took from the Crest, near the
Acorn Trail bomb-off to Wrightwood.

Photo 1: snow-covered limber pine

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/blisterfree/vwp?.dir=/PCT/1999+Mexico+-+Sierras/1
)+Southern+California&.src=ph&.dnm=Snowstorm+in+June+1.jpg&.view=t&.done=htt
p%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/blisterfree/lst%3f%26.dir=/PCT/1999%2bMexico%2b-%2
bSierras/1)%2bSouthern%2bCalifornia%26.src=ph%26.view=t

Photo 2: PCT tracking across leeward side of ridge (momentarily)

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/blisterfree/vwp?.dir=/PCT/1999+Mexico+-+Sierras/1
)+Southern+California&.src=ph&.dnm=Snowstorm+in+June+2.jpg&.view=t&.done=htt
p%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/blisterfree/lst%3f%26.dir=/PCT/1999%2bMexico%2b-%2
bSierras/1)%2bSouthern%2bCalifornia%26.src=ph%26.view=t


- blisterfree

What did the hot dog vendor say to the Zen Monk?

"Let me make you one with everything."


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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:03:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Tony DiLorenzo <tdilopct@yahoo.com>
To: PCT-L@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] tarp, tent, or nothing

>From the border to Kennedy Meadows you can go without
a tent or tarp.  I sleep under the stars almost every
night except a few.  I did have a tent and sent it
home once I reach I-10.  The only problem is the dew
in the morning hours.  Plan on sleeping away from
creeks and sleep higher up.