[pct-l] Music on the Trail and Rain Gear

[Nathan A]

Hello Everyone,
My wife and I are going to bring our 16GB Iphones to use for camera, music
player, Audiobook player ect.

Obviously having enough space for everything is going to become an issue
quickly  and I just wanted to share some ideas we have and any hear if
anyone has been successful with this approach.

I went a little crazy with signing up for cloud storage through Dropbox(2GB
Free), Google Drive (5GB Free), and Box(Got a promo with 50GB Free).

We will be using Dropbox to upload all of our photos then family back home
will pull them off the drive weekly for us and burn them to a CD.  We can
then delete all of the photos from our phone for the next section of trail.

I will upload extra copies of Halfmiles Maps, Cell Reception Reports,
Resupply Spreadsheet, ect as backups to Google Docks as needed.

Finally, I will upload all of my music and audio books to Box and as I find
WiFi in towns I will just download whatever audio books or music I am
interested in.  I have not bought the app yet but they do sell a $2 audio
player that I still need to play with.

Looking over the WiFi report it seems like there is easily accessible WiFi
all over the trail other than perhaps the 1st 300 miles.

Has anyone else had experience with this?

Completely different question: I am thinking of bringing a wind jacket,
Mylar umbrella, and just a cheep $1 plastic emergency poncho as my rain
gear until Kennedy Meadows. Obviously my biggest concern is the San
Jacinto's. Does this seem sufficient rain coverage for the amount of rain
typically seen on this section of trail?

Thanks Everyone and see you in a few months!
Nathan