[pct-l] Hot in Seiad Valley

[greg mushial]

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> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:25:45 -0700
> From: "Eric Lee" <saintgimp at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Hot in Seiad Valley
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> I'm going to be hiking through Seiad Valley next week on my annual section
> hike and on a whim I checked the weather forecast for down there.  It's
> going to be 112 degrees there tomorrow, cooling to a mere 106 degrees by 
> the
> end of the week.  I knew that Northern California could be hot but that's,
> um, rather formidable.  Is that normal?  Maybe I should just keep 
> repeating
> Washington and Oregon?  J
> Eric

As SteelEye said:  just remember - it's dry heat  ;-)   Actually, this has 
been a cooler than nominal summer, at least here in Redding...  a normal 
summer here will peakout at 115-118F; this summer the highest we've seen is 
106 or 107 (which sucks if one is growing melons - they need the heat to 
produce the sugars that make them taste like melons). W/re the heat, other 
than staying hydrated, I personally, given the choice btwn 95 or 105, will 
always take the 105+...  at 95 one becomes sweat soaked, which without some 
breeze, does nothing for cooling - above 105 +/-, the sweat will evap almost 
immediately, leaving one with a silly salt/powder coating, but basically 
cool [I replaced the roof on the house in early july after work in the 
evening, and wouldn't get "sweaty" until almost sunset when the temp would 
start to drop.]

put one foot ahead of the other, repeat until done,
TheDuck