[pct-l] Hiker weather at town stops

[Greg Hardwick]

Maybe the idea is to have your suggestion on someone's webstite (postholer). 
So all a hike would have to do is go to postholer and click a link.  No work 
on my part, just extending an idea to the next step

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "arm chair" <armchairhiker at gmail.com>
To: "pct" <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:46 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Hiker weather at town stops


> To any weather watchers out there -
>
> Does anyone already have a solution to the following:
>
> Hiker arrives at a town stop that has internet access. Go to a web site 
> that
> shows ten day forcasts for the next section of trail.
>
> It would be great if the hiker doesn't have to do a lot of entering zip
> codes or towns etc. Perhaps it could be pre-set up by the hiker or someone
> else?
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> town A -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>  town B -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>  town C -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>  town D -
> day 1       day 2     day 3     day 4     day 5      day 6    day 7 
> day
> 8     day 9      day 10
>
>
> It would seem that due to time constraints on public computers and the 
> need
> for the hiker to get other email etc done, that the weather function 
> should
> be very quick and perhaps printable.
>
> So how about it? Alot of people on the list watch the weather sites. What
> would be a quick solution.
>
> - armchair
> _______________________________________________
> pct-l mailing list
> pct-l at backcountry.net
> unsubscribe or change options:
> http://mailman.hack.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l
>