[pct-l] Curious . . .

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

Perhaps it's because not everyone lives in the storm zone . . . members of the post live all over the country (yes, even Kansas City, Kansas and Laramie, Wyoming).  Not everyone is experiencing what we are here in the west.  

Since I started reporting to the Chicago regional office of company I work for, I find I don't whine about our weather in So Cal any more.  They think we're a bunch of wusses out here in California.  Wah, wah, it's raining.  I personally think the most fascinating thing isn't the sheer volume of water that's fallen, although I'm ecstatic to see it; it's how much of California is soft soil and how it washes, slides, and slithers away.  The Trail will not doubt have taken a terrible beating.  

It seems, too,  that folks on the list tend to talk about what the weather/conditions will be in the upcoming season -- yet to be determined.  There's been quite a bit of discussion about sobo vs. nobo this year, and of flip-flop possibilities.

But most of all, there's been a fair amount of crankiness and grousing going on over the past weeks due to cabin fever.  The weather outside caused some squalls online, or so it seems.  That's been the most telling evidence of the severity of the weather.  

-=Donna Saufley=-

-----Original Message-----
From: JOHN F PATTERSON <yuppatt@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Feb 21, 2005 5:49 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Curious . . . 

   From the very first pieces of trail literature I came across as I prepared myself to travel west and attempt a hike of the Pacific Crest Trail I was ' deluged ' with description after vivid description as to / on the , arid - desert like conditions therein in it ' s southern most regions : the 6 year drought , the low annual rainfall figures , the empty - low reservoirs / the Colorado River drainage being drained ; my first extremely hot days at Bob Reiss ' s house in San Diego - the harsh view below from the aircraft as we flew west over my future path north . 
   Etc . , Etc . , Etc .
   Is it me or does it not seem curious that I am seeing NO reports , comments , discussions , broadcasts , descriptions - charts , reams of data , photos , etc., etc. etc., here on this site from you folks there now living through history making weather . Phenomenal history making weather !       
   Unheard of conditions I think / suppose / gather from the eastern media , etc . 
   THIS IS virtually unprecedented moisture , rain / snow / storms , RIGHT NOW .- ; HISTORY , right now . 
   Folks who have only been to the region are coming up to me here in the east and talking about it but no one focuses on such here in this site where I would most expect to see such .. 
   I'm thinking  . . . Like a duck , hit on the head . 
        Rafter Jack 


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