[pct-l] Keneddy Meadows

[Donna "L-Rod" Saufley]

This year for us was notable because off how short almost everyone's stay at Hiker Heaven was.  We had more people taking near-O's, not zeros, than ever before.  Very few multiple zeros were taken, except for the sick and injured.  So, they weren't held up at our place (can't speak for the Andersons, though :o).  It seemed to me that they were all fired up and anxious to get to the Sierras, unlike past years where they were dragging their feet, killing time so they didn't get there too soon. 

They are still coming through now, but that's not all that unusual for this time of year in our experience.  However, there are very few boxes and very little mail left on the shelves.  There aren't very many still south of Agua Dulce.  One guy emailed and asked if he could come stay on 7/3.  

Hope your birthday was happy, Meadow Ed.

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
>From: ed faubert <edfaubert at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 21, 2007 4:04 PM
>To: pct-l- <pct-l-request at mailman.backcountry.net>, pct-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] Keneddy Meadows
>
>6/21
>  I just got home from the Meadows, and well i did not see as many of my old friends as i had hoped to because they were gone by the 11th....I was able to feed 3 young men yesterday who said they were counting names in the regester at the store and they were at 194...and still boxes for new hikers were coming in. Leona thought there was still 30 more coming.
>  Monday the 11, i fed 28 hikers and fed an additional 28 the next night... not a single one of them had been there the night before!
>  Some of these folks had started at W/Pass, some skipped from A/D. 2 guys were hurt at Joshea Tree and were up to the campground. One left at Int. 10 and restarted at KMs.
>  With the low snow year i was not surprized at how many were past KMs. what i was surprized at was how many were still there on the 19th. Having spent 12 of my last bdays up there i have seen many low snow years where i was the only person  on a few days prior to my bday.  Many of them this year  attributed these higher #s of folks still at KMs  to too many zero days at both Donnas and Terrys this year. Well some did complain about the heat most of them realized it was not as hot overall this year as it normaly can be. 
>  Stopping off at McDonalds at Cajon Pass we saw a higher still coming up trail. This feller Disel however was only going to Mill Creek Summit to stop where he started last year. He said he was surprized to see there was still a fair amount of water on the trail.
>   Meadow Ed
>
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