[at-l] 10 years ago today... (was 7 years ago)

[Mara Factor]

I´ll never forget Floyd.  I was one of those trapped for three days
without food at Horseshoe Canyon lean-to.  I was there with Yak and
Yo.  After two days, Yak swam the river (dangerous!) to go get food.
With the threat of another storm on the way, we finally got out on the
third day when the rivers started receding.

Horseshoe canyon lean-to is between the East and West branches of the
Piscataquis River, just a few trail miles south of Monson -
tantalizingly close to food and lodging but oh so far when the river
is up..

My journal from those days at
http://friends.backcountry.net/m_factor/september1.html#17

I would have only been a day or two behind you, Chase, except for
getting stranded.

Mara - from Arequipa, Peru
Stitches, AT99

On 8/15/09, Charles W. Davidson <chaseat99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mara,
>          I was only a few weeks away from the joys of traveling the 100 mile
> wilderness with the remnants  of Hurricane Floyd. Lots of folks got trapped
> between rivers in 99. Some ran short of food after waiting a few days and
> had to go back to Monson for supplies. I was lucky. While talking to my
> brother on the phone from Shaw's he told the storm was coming. I left very
> early the next day. Some of the stream crossing I made that morning barely
> getting my feet wet were waist deep and raging by that evening. It rained so
> hard you couldn't see.
>
> chase
>
>
> Mara Factor wrote:
> > 10 years ago today was Friday the Thirteenth.
> >
> > I started the day at the Inn at the Long Trail which was still on the
> > AT - but not for long.  I remember eating delicious French Toast.
> >
> >
> <snip>
>


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