http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/ John Muir Trail - A resource for JMT hikers Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:39:04 GMT hmdsierra http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6413 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6413 Up here they are predicting 2 to 3 feet in the Cascades within the next few days. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:48:25 GMT hmdsierra http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6412 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6412 I thought my friend might get a kick out of the no TP thread and he had a reply. "Guess if you want total liberation you leave your backpack at home also, a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:47:31 GMT ed_rodriguez52@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6411 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6411 Thanks Barbara for that up date. Let wait to see how the storms pass over the JMT. Yea looks like there will be a lot of snow over the pass and run off in the Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:34:17 GMT Barbara Karagosian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6410 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6410 Just read this on the "Dweebs" Mammoth weather site: "EL NINO IS EXPLODING......IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC!......GOOD IDEA FOR SOUTHERN Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:31:48 GMT Barbara Karagosian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6409 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6409 I worked as a nurse in a tropical disease clinic in India for 2 years. No TP there - it was the left hand and bucket of water situation. One of the docs did Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:29:36 GMT ed_rodriguez52@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6408 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6408 Say when I visited mexico in my youth I stayed in a ranch (farm) that had no running water no out house and no electricity. So we had to use what ever near to Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:11:09 GMT John http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6407 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6407 Hey Roleigh thanks for posting the links I didn't read the article as I am not a member but did pa-rouse the forum, I think from my previous knowledge of the Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:19:25 GMT Roleigh Martin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6406 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6406 I found the one link I mentioned -- the author is a cartoonist and the illustrations are phenomenal and funny too. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:52:25 GMT John http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6405 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6405 Hi Roleigh I just wanted to expound on the TP issue and rules etc. I believe that people roll there eyes at this issue because they have never thought about Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:03:24 GMT Roleigh Martin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6404 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6404 Found this link at BPL's forum of interest to many here: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:32:40 GMT Roleigh Martin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6403 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6403 I only felt slighted by multiple paragraphs of all CAPS and the "put up or shut up" advice. The others who provided the input about the rule exists because of Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:14:11 GMT John Ladd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6402 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6402 Roleigh I certainly don't think you are wrong to ask the rationale for a rule. It's just that the rationale might not be a study that links burning a Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:03:27 GMT Roleigh Martin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6401 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6401 There are some on the board who may believe that understanding the rationale for a rule makes it easier to explain the rules to others. Obviously there are Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:51:23 GMT John Ladd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6400 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6400 ... I believe it. My wife once was concerned about difficult stream crossings when I was on an early-season JMT section hike. She called the inter-agency Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:46:57 GMT (no author) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmuirtrail/message/6399 "you know, I never read anything people send to me in all freaking CAPS" and obviously the CAPS didn't get through to anyone. I woke up this morning to a