[pct-l] Prepared for weather

[giniajim]

Thanks for the heads-up about Larry's book.  I just ordered a copy.  Looking forward to reading it.  

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Bache 
  To: Lhogue1 at san.rr.com 
  Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Prepared for weather


  Larry,

  I am a huge admirer of your book.  It is a pleasure to see your name on this
  list.

  [Fellow listers -- get "All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert
  Landscape" -- it focuses on San Diego County backcountry and provides a
  wonderful synthesis of history, geology, and ecology. His thoughts about the
  role of humans and fire are thought provoking and original (to me anyway).]

  I've been hoping you were working on another, so looking forward to seeing
  your new book.  

  Tom Bache
  La Jolla  



  > 
  > 
  > Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:37:23 -0700
  > From: "Larry Hogue" <Lhogue1 at san.rr.com>
  > Subject: [pct-l]  Prepared for weather
  > To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
  > 
  > Diane, great post on the varied environments the PCT passes through in
  > Southern California.
  >  
  > If you're hiking over Hauser Mountain when it's 80 degrees and thinking,
  > "this is a hot, dry desert," just try going for a hike in the Borrego
  > Badlands on the same day. What seem like sterile and abstract definitions of
  > "desert" and "not a desert" will suddenly become much more real and
  > immediate. And the shade provided by all those ribbonwoods and sugar bushes
  > and manzanitas on the PCT will suddenly seem luxurious. But if you've just
  > come from, let's say, western Oregon, it probably does feel just like a
  > "desert" in a loose sense.
  >  
  > How the human body experiences these differences is subjective. I remember
  > opining about how dry it was in Missoula MT, and all the natives of eastern
  > Montana said "wait a minute, this isn't dry, this is the banana belt of the
  > state." 
  >  
  > Larry Hogue
  > Author, All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert Landscape
  > Working on a narrative guide to the PCT in the Peninsular Ranges (Section A
  > and half of B)
  > 
  > 


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