[pct-l] Early Hikers

[T.Rem]

Me and 10 other early hikers hunkered down up at Mike's place up on
Chihuahua Valley Road at around 5000 feet.  It was crazy windy up there and
we got some pretty wild snow and cold weather.  Seven people packed into
the RV like sardines!!  Myself and 3 others took the shack and were
damn grateful for it- thanks Mike, where ever you are!  We left donations
for the cause.

I hope no-one got caught outside in that stuff- it would've been a really,
really rough time.

I took one zero day on the 14th to wait out the storm- some of the earlier
starters had been in that RV for 2 or 3 days!!  We all walked the 24 miles
to Paradise Cafe today and enjoyed the burgers we'd all been dreaming about.

Todd "Pockets"

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Bill Burge <bill at burge.com> wrote:

> It's been wild.
>
> We made it through Friday night in Lake Morena campground.
>
> Some of us stayed in Boulder Oaks campground last night. It was cold, but
> not dramatic. Everything frozen in the morning.
>
> Today, we wanted to hike a ways and camp around mile 38-39. Nope!
>  Everything covered in snow or slush.
>
> We pushed on, me and Brrrito thinking maybe Burnt Rancheria campground,
> but the trail is covered in snow, sleet, mud, or a mixture of any two or
> all three. It cut our pace a lot.
>
> We weren't very near the campground when the sun went down and decided to
> push to Mt Laguna and hope for a cabin/room. We cut through the campground
> and road walked the remainder of the way where someone that we met earlier
> and have been playing tag with had a cabin and was expecting us!  Awesome!
>
> So we did 16.4 miles today and 5 or 6 miles of it in bad trail conditions.
> That's a lot for us; we're older. Tonight, I feel even older.
>
> SomeGuy
>  Bill Burge
> Typoed on my iPhone...
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 8:58 PM, "Monty Tam" <montypct at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have 4 thru’s and 5 trail crew here for the night getting out of that
> storm.
> >
> > Monty
> >
> > From: Ground Pounder
> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 4:29 PM
> > To: AsABat ; bighummel at aol.com ; Bryan Rindal ; DARLENE RINDAL ; Dave
> Chappman ; dsaufley ; Ed Faubert ; hiker97 at aol.com ;
> thunder_heart_rain at yahoo.com ; Laurel Buchanan Morin ; Margaret Hansen ;
> Margean Blake ; Michael Blake ; Peter 'OC' Dascalos ; PCT LIST ;
> reinholdmetzger at cox.net ; Rob Langsdorf ; Ned Tibbets ; Rosemarie Davis ;
> Scott Herriott ; tom aterno ; Warner Springs Monty
> > Subject: Early Hikers
> >
> > “How’s Your Trail”?        I know it’s wet, Praying that All are safe.
> Rain in buckets and a lot of snow, glad I put off hiking this year. Hope to
> be on the trail next year, depending on retirement. I hope there won’t have
> to be any rescues because of this storm. Remember “Be Prepared”  Ground
> Pounder Bill  “Semper Fi”
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