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Thanks! Hilarious writing...Looks like you have everything pretty well planned. I have that spread sheet that Bob Accord made up for Rainier last year if you want it...tho I suspect you have one of your own.
I didn't realize that Ron wanted to go, that's cool!
I have tent, stove, 1 picket, shovel...
Stacie Chandler
Boeing Biz Jet - Winglet Program
Bldg 4-17.2, Col. F6
425-234-8980 M/C 63-91
mailto:stacie.m.chandler@boeing.com
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> pct-l-digest Wednesday, June 16 1999 Volume 01 : Number 786
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> In this issue:
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> Re: [pct-l] Postcards from the Trail: Tucker Spohr
> [pct-l] Snow
> [pct-l] News from the Trail: Goforth
> [pct-l] Obituaries: Dr. John William Lowder
> [pct-l] News from the Trail: Goforth
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> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:47:36 -0700
> From: Owen Kittredge <owenk@quiknet.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Postcards from the Trail: Tucker Spohr
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> Bob
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> FYI Mohave is spelled Mojave, from a graduate of Mojave High School 73
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> Sorry could not resist, hope you are having fun!!
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> Owen K
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> ROBERT E RIESS wrote:
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> <P>FYI Mohave is spelled Mojave, from a graduate of Mojave High School
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> <P>Sorry could not resist, hope you are having fun!!
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:09:29 EDT
> From: Montedodge@aol.com
> Subject: [pct-l] Snow
>
> Still have 193 inches of snow at 5500ft. were in Washington. ( paradise at
> Mt. Rainier ) Some passes are being plowed at the latest date of all time. (
> chinook and cayu. ) We,re still in winter mode up here.
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:56:10 -0600
> From: "Karen Elder" <wild_mind@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] News from the Trail: Goforth
>
> Joanne "Goforth" Lennox is sending me reports of her thru-hike for me to
> post here with news about trail conditions for this year's hikers and a
> glimpse of our beloved PCT for the rest of us.
>
> Karen Elder
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> June 8, 1999
> Tuesday
> Walker Pass
>
> Dear Folks,
>
> Well after my third diarrhea seige and wnd visit to the emergency
> room, I decided to just escape capture in Big Bear, and set out a week ago
> in the rain + fog and uncertainty. I had lost 12 pounds, mostly from not
> eating for 2 weeks, and I had troubles physically and psychologically, but I>
> just kept going forth and after a week my appetite started to come back and
> yesterday I felt the swing in my gait reappearing as well. So I climbed 7
> peaks yesterday (6 had registers) to put the world back on notice. Gurdieff
> said that if you are going to do something -- go whole hog, every night, and
> Saturday night.
> I learned to love the horned toads -- gentle little dragon folk of
> the chaparral forest. They do not slither off like the lizards, but scamper
> a short ways to a piece of shade and watch you -- curious and quiet. They
> live in the great hinterland which for them is infinite and wild. Their maps
> show no ciites and the roads and trails are like watching television --
> rivers where flow the drama of eating and being eaten.
> I bought a water filter, a pair of running shoes (for later); picked
> up my boots and ice ax and less than 24 hours later, find myself in the
> midst of a thruhiker crowd (now fast asleep) at Walker Pass. As Carlton was
> dropping me off, right away I recognized the voice of Meadow Ed + was
> assured by his gentle presence. For only the second night I camped with
> other thruhikers.
> My feet are looking askance at my boots -- I seem to feel the entire
> weave of my soft wool socks and am wondering why I abandoned my tennies --
> because the snow + high passes are waiting. And I have my blister kit at the
> ready.
> Received news that there was a thruhiker accident on a trail going
> into Lone Pine. You can not imagine how sad this made me -- I feel very
> aligned with all the hikers on the trail, and in a sense what happens to the
> rest of them, happens to me as well. It is like we are all one organism on
> the trail.
>
> Sincerely,
> Goforth
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:09:33 -0700
> From: Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Obituaries: Dr. John William Lowder
>
> from
>
> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/metro/news_1m15lowder.html
> ======================
> John William Lowder, 69; doctor, longtime outdoorsman
>
> By Jack Williams STAFF WRITER
>
> June 15, 1999
>
> Three months before a hiking accident took his life, an adventurous John
> William Lowder revealed the heart of a man at peace with the perils of nature.
>
> "When I die my wish is to be in the mountains, alone, and to have a few
> hours with God," he told a friend.
>
> Dr. Lowder, 69, was in the midst of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, all
> the way from East San Diego County to Canada, when he was found dead June 5
> near Lone Pine.
>
> "He broke his own rule: Never hike alone," said his former wife, Ida Lowder.
>
> With a snowstorm expected the previous evening, Dr. Lowder had separated
> from other hikers, encouraging them to go on at a pace he could not
> sustain. Seeking warmer air, he hiked down a mountain.
>
> But as the storm hit, impairing his vision, he took one misstep and fell
> about 60 feet from a cliff into a canyon, authorities said.
>
> Dr. Lowder survived the fall, despite breaking both legs and an arm, and
> apparently was able to crawl into his sleeping bag. But a blow to the head
> and massive internal injuries were too severe to overcome.
>
> By the time hikers reached him the next day, he was dead.
>
> An able and experienced hiker, Dr. Lowder had begun his trek April 23 at
> Boulder Oaks, where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses Old Highway 80. He had
> hoped to complete the scenic 2,650-mile journey by October, joining other
> hikers along the route and picking up supplies at prearranged sites.
>
>
> If necessary, he planned to cut short his hike to tackle another
> challenge: a canoe trip on the Klamath River with friends beginning Oct. 4.
> Next on the adventure agenda was a millennium hike of the Continental>
> Divide between Mexico and Canada.
>
> A former chief of staff at Grossmont and Villa View Community hospitals,
> Dr. Lowder retired from full-time medical practice in 1992. He then
> fulfilled a goal to hike the Appalachian Trial, from Georgia to Maine, a
> trek that spanned eight months and wore out three pairs of boots.
>
> "Jack was a very generous, very vigorous man," said longtime friend Marge
> Cooper. "He biked, canoed, kayaked. Anything outdoors -- that was his life."
>
> As a member of the Knickerbikers, a San Diego cycling club, Dr. Lowder
> completed several long-distance biking tours. In a recent summer, he cycled
> through Europe for several months.
>
> He also had taken up white-water rafting in Washington state, Oregon and
> Colorado.
>
> About 6 feet, 2 inches tall, and a solid 190 pounds, Dr. Lowder was
> unusually strong for his age.
>
> Cooper recalled that last March, in a canoe trip in the turbulent waters
> of the Colorado River, "it took all his strength to keep us from capsizing."
>
> Cooper was joined by several of Dr. Lowder's friends and some members of
> his family Sunday at a memorial hike and informal service in his honor. The
> hike started at Boulder Oaks and ascended some 900 feet to Kitchen's Creek.
>
> It was a trail Dr. Lowder had hiked many times before. There, amid
> waterfalls and cottonwood trees, people shared memories of Dr. Lowder and
> scattered some of his ashes.
>
> Many lauded him for the "sidewalk surgery," as they called it, that he had
> performed on fellow bikers and hikers who had taken a bruising fall.
>
> A daughter, Leslie Cabezas, recited a poem she had written within an hour
> after his cremation: "Broken on the Battle Field."
>
> "We recalled how patient and helpful he was," said Ken King, a biking
> buddy. "He would never complain about a rainy day or bad weather. He was
> always cheerful, with a 'Good morning,' and anxious to get on the road."
>
> Dr. Lowder, a La Mesa resident, settled in the San Diego area in 1958
> after serving two years as a Navy doctor on Saipan.
>
> He practiced family medicine in Lemon Grove before joining a handful of
> other physicians in founding Parkway Medical Group Inc. at 54th Street and
> University Avenue.
>
> Dr. Lowder volunteered as a physician at San Diego Chargers football games
> at Qualcomm Stadium. He served as an emergency room physician at Villa View
> and as a ship physician for Norwegian and American Hawaii cruise lines.
>
>
> He was born in Steelton, Pa., and developed his love of the outdoors as a
> youth. In football he was a star halfback as an undergraduate at Franklin &
> Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.
>
> Turning down a professional offer from the Green Bay Packers, Dr. Lowder
> enrolled in Temple University's medical school. He earned a medical degree,
> then served an internship at Harrisburg Hospital in Pennsylvania.
>
> "He was quite a scholar," his former wife said. "If he hadn't been a
> physician, he would have loved teaching history.
>
> "He knew all about history and loved visiting old battlefields, including
> Gettysburg. And he traced his family ancestry to North Carolina."
>
> As an aficionado of Henry David Thoreau, Dr. Lowder often shared a
> favorite quote with fellow hikers:
>
> "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
> the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to
> teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
>
> Dr. Lowder's survivors include two daughters, Melissa Lowder of La Mesa
> and Leslie Cabezas of Clairement; three sons, John, of San Carlos, Scott,
> of Temecula, and Jason, of La Mesa; a sister, Lucille Boyer of San Antonio;
> and four grandchildren.
>
> Private services were held.
>
>
>
> Copyright 1999 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 21:36:57 -0600
> From: "Karen Elder" <wild_mind@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] News from the Trail: Goforth
>
> Joanne "Goforth" Lennox is sending me reports of her thru-hike for me to
> post here with news about trail conditions for this year's hikers and a
> glimpse of our beloved PCT for the rest of us.
>
> Karen Elder
>
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> June 12, 1999
> Saturday, 6 AM
>
>
> Mailing List Folks,
>
> It is a frosty morning at Kennedy Meadows, a lot of people here for
> the "gathering"; many are up at the Campground, so I haven't met them yet.
> But hope to leave today + go slowly into the higher realms.
>
> I seem to be less the carefree traveller the last few days, a lot of
> up + down + hot loose sand + my right knee has started to get swollen (the
> joint is slightly askew -- I twisted it + have wedged it in various tree
> forks + under logs but can't seem to realign the thing). This makes me
> uneasy with the Sierra Nevada looming.
>
> Climbed my 42nd peak with Bear (named benchmark) and saw a large
> bear not too far from the summit -- he panicked + galloped off, crashing
> through some dense pinyon pines -- whew, that must have hurt breaking all
> those branches! The climbing puts me in a different place and space than the
> rest of the thruhikers. I almost always get passed when I am off bagging a
> peak -- and I don't see who passed me. It seems that one gets magnetized by
> the presence of other hikers -- and one is always very aware of where one is
> in the shifting cloud of hikers -- an amazing array of footwear prints. But
> the climbing makes it easier for me to divorce myself from this "magnetism"
> and hike my own hike. Unfortunately, it also makes it very difficult to hook
> up with any particular hikers and have company.
>
> The Pappy of a Montana ranching acquaintance of mine told him that a
> split wood fence will last 100 years longer than a sawn one (I don't think
> this statistic is valid for the wet NW). It seems some kind gun-toting souls
> have taen this advice to heart and have been re-shaping the brown PCT
> post-markers in the desert -- splitting the tops to points - better water
> shedding shape. All the bullet holes through the signs certainly help make
> the signs more pervious to the howling desert winds as well. At the point
> that the poles are whittled down to stubs and the signs are no longer
> legible, the effort has gone too far, however.
>
> The biggest + ubiquitous signs so far are the various Agencies
> announcing their territories ("You are now entering . . . "); there are more
> of these signs than markers indicating mileages or which trails go where at
> intersections. What signs do the High Sierras hold, I wonder?
>
> More anon.
>
> Peace + good knees to you all + a good 4th of July too.
>
> Goforth
>
>
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