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[pct-l] RE: Headlamps and Flashlights
Hi John,
I use the orange Photon light. I like it because it allows me to see quite
well, without 'ruining my night vision'. I don't know if I really have ANY
night vision, to be honest. But it does help to adjust quickly after looking
in the light. It's not useful at all for looking at maps at night: the blue
lines are not distinguishable from the other lines. In general, colours are
not visible, everything looks kinda orangy-gray. Still, it will be all I'll
take this summer on the JMT...
Groetjes,
Saskia
> From: John Coyle <jcoyle@sanjuan.edu>
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:37:29 -0800
> To: "'pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net'" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] RE: Headlamps and Flashlights
>
> For some reason I have become something of a gear head when it comes to
> headlamps and flashlights for hiking. I have purchased so many lately that
> my wife thinks I need to attend the next FA(Flashlights Anonymous) meeting.
> The only reason I can get away with buying so many is that she spends at
> least as much on her aging 21 year old cat as I do on flashlights(How much
> longer can that thing last?--When it finally flies home no more
> flashlights!) I am particularly fascinated with the led models and one of my
> favorites is the Princeton Tec Aurora; however, I just purchased The new
> Black Diamond Zenix and I believe this will be my new favorite--for a while
> at least. It is very bright for an LED, although a little heavier at 4.9 oz
> than the Aurora(2.8oz). Sometimes I like a bright light to identify animals
> at night, and I try not to shine it in other hikers eyes to avoid blinding
> them and ruining their night vision. I always take a small Pulsar II coin
> type(7 grams) for a backup and could use it for a main light if I was going
> ultralight. Does anybody use the colored led lights? I prefer the white or
> slightly blue, but have heard that some people prefer the green or red ones.
> I would be interested in hearing what people are using out there and why.
>
> John Coyle
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. FEMA and insurance (Robert B Smith)
> 2. Pink snow (Eric Yakel)
> 3. Numbness (Eric Yakel)
> 4. Re: PCT with a dog? (Hiker)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:20:23 -0600
> From: "Robert B Smith" <rsmithat99@cox.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] FEMA and insurance
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
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> I sure don't know about the fires and all but when we were hit by hurricane
> Opal in 1995 it was our own private insurance that covered our losses. We
> did get a low interest loan from FEMA to cover uninsured losses. The loan
> was at 4 percent interest and we paid back every cent of it. Just as our
> neighbors did also. If anyone around here got free money I sure am not aware
> of it. I admit that 4 percent was better than we could have gotten in the
> private market but still the Government made money on the loan.
>
> Combined work time / tax paying time for my wife and I is about 75 years.
> In our neighborhood it must be about 400 years at least. we are all older
> folks. We choose to live on a large body of water and we pay very high
> insurance rates because of our choice.
>
> Take care and see you up the trail .
> Waterboy
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:42:35 -0800
> From: "Eric Yakel" <eyakel@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] Pink snow
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
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> The Dr's. right. The pink snow will give you the runs. By the way, to
> bring it up for all of us listers, did you read the article in Backpacker
> and the one before that in the PCTA magazine on water purity and
> purification. A must read. In short it says your chances of getting the
> crud from a backcountry water source are slim and none. My two cents, I've
> hiked the Sierras for 35 years and only use my filter at lakes that aren't
> draining well (Chickenfoot Lake in Southern Sierras). Never had a single
> problem.
> P.S. - Don't eat the yellow snow either.
> Eric Yakel
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:56:18 -0800
> From: "Eric Yakel" <eyakel@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] Numbness
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> The same thing occassionally happens to me. Was it always uphill when you
> got numb? Seemed to be for me. I believe it is a combination of age( I'm
> 49), the pressure of the hip belt on that artery that goes near the inside
> of your hips, and most of all altitude. It never seems to happen to me on
> lower elevation hikes.
> E.Y.
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:58:29 -0800
> From: Hiker <hiker@godlikebuthumble.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT with a dog?
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> At 07:14 PM 11/10/03, Marshall Karon wrote:
>> The National Parks (read High Sierras) don't allow dogs nor does Castle
>> Craig State Park.
>
> Actually there is a Dog Trail through Castle Crags state park. Not quite
> the same route as the PCT, but you can hike it as an alternate if you want
> to stay legal.
>
> You will most certainly never see a ranger in Anza Borrego State park, and
> you are just barely within the borders there.
>
> You will most certainly see rangers in Sequoia/Kings NP and Yosemite NP.
> They WILL give you a ticket, and ask you to exit the park in the shortest
> way out. If that is back the way you came, then you are fooked.
>
> I met a couple of dogs in NorCal that seemed to be pretty happy, having
> hiked all the way from Campo, so don't let the nay-sayers keep you down.
>
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