[at-l] Link to Gutsy & Dan CDT photos.

Sun Jul 29 23:14:06 CDT 2007

Link to Gutsy & Dan CDT photos.? 

http://picasaweb.google.com/danandgailsc/CDT2007?authkey=IemQ_XFzFtg

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   1. Re: Marsha Moon.... (Jan Leitschuh)
   2. Bushbuddy wood burning backpacking stove (danandgailsc at aol.com)
   3. Gutsy and Dan CDT 2007 section hike (danandgailsc at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jan Leitschuh <janl2 at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [at-l] Marsha Moon....
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Yah, I saw this in the wilds of northern New Hampshire/southern Maine in 2003.
Compelling, even if not moon-sized. I stayed up to watch, clear nights.
That took some effort to stay up past hiker midnight, but I reckoned I wouldn't 
be around for the second pass.

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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:56:43 -0400
From: "Jim Bullard" <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [at-l] Marsha Moon....
To: "Felix J" <athiker at smithville.net>

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That was back in 2003 Felix and it wasn't as big as the moon. Larger than
usual but not as big as the moon. The next close encounter with Mars
(slightly closer even than 2003) will be in 2287.

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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:58:25 -0400
From: danandgailsc at aol.com
Subject: [at-l] Bushbuddy wood burning backpacking stove
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Thank you?to the two people who sent me the link to the Bushbuddy stove!? That's 
the one we were looking for.

Gutsy?visited Denali National Park today, on her way from Fairbanks to 
Anchorage.? She'll be back in SC in about a week.

I'll post separately a report on our CDT section hike from the first 3 weeks in 
July.? It's also posted on CDT-L, but I'll?cross-post for our AT friends who are 
not on CDT-L.

Dan
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:04:26 -0400
From: danandgailsc at aol.com
Subject: [at-l] Gutsy and Dan CDT 2007 section hike
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Gutsy and I were fortunate to make it around both Fool Creek and Ahorn fires 
earlier this month. Alternate routes were posted for the Fool Creek fire--On 
July 10 we hiked Strawberry Creek then west to Gooseberry Ranger station 
(covered in reflective foil material for fire protection) and Clack River trail 
to Switchback Pass; the next day, Pentagon Creek to Spotted Bear Pass and 
beyond. Just past Spotted Bear Pass on July 11, the very day it blew up, we 
spotted heavy smoke and were concerned. After using compass and map, we decided 
it was ok to push on through quickly. We did 26 miles that day, stopping at a 
large campsite on the left side of the West Fork. 

On July 12 we started out before 6 a.m., wanting to pass by Indian Point Guard 
Station as soon as possible. We were joined around 7 a.m. by another couple, 
Bill and Ginger, who had the same objective: get to Benchmark as quickly as 
possible. As a former forest service worker, he was very knowledgeable about the 
backcountry--wild fires, wild animals, accurate compass and map reading, etc., 
and we enjoyed their company for the next several hours as we hurried together 
to Benchmark.??We both had a resupply there.??Gutsy and Ginger enjoyed women's 
chit chat.?

On the way, at Indian Point guard station we met two rangers who told us about 
their hair-raising experience the previous day. They were doing trail 
maintenance work and heard a radio report about a new fire. They thought, "That 
sounds very close to us," and turned around to see the fire blowing up no more 
than a hundred yards behind and uphill from them.

Unlike the Fool Creek fire, fire suppression for the Ahorn fire was already 
under way on July 12. We saw two helicopters carrying water buckets to and from 
the fire, and at the Benchmark airstrip was the staging area for aircraft 
refueling and also three smoke jumper support vans.

We rented "The Wigwam" cabin and spent an enjoyable time at Benchmark Wilderness 
Campground, resting, showering, packing resupply stuff, resting, eating, and 
resting some more. We finally got away on the 13th around 1:30 p.m. and hiked 
around 12 miles to the Green Fork Guard Station. In the registration box we saw 
Sly's card, signed on July 9, 4 days earlier. We had had dinner with him and 6 
or 8 others in East Glacier on July 1. We started south through GNP the next 
day; the others had just completed GNP.

On July 16th at Flescher Pass, we camped with Daybreak, Hawkeye, and Sly. Sly 
had sat out several days in Lincoln because of the heat. Two days later, with 
28- and a 24-mile days, Gutsy and I were in Helena. We had two full days to 
relax before our flights out on July 21--I headed back to SC, and Gutsy to 
Fairbanks, AK, to visit our youngest son who lives there. She'll return to SC in 
about a week. While in Helena, we went to Dairy Queen and Bert and Ernie's 
sidewalk restaurant with Sly, Sloetoe, Magic, and Bug. They left town on Friday 
to hike together a section of the CDT in the Wind River Range. Patio Bench, who 
we had previously seen in East Glacier and Valley of the Moon, came into Helena 
on Friday.

We saw a grizzly bear near the Blacktail Creek headwaters, and also near there 
we were frightened in the middle of the night by a large animal (deer, I think) 
that came sniffing and snorting very near the tent (and drying socks) more than 
once. The only tracks we found in the a.m. were from a deer.

The first installment of our section hike was a great success! 

Dan

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