On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 06:20 AM, cjoslyn99 wrote:
Since I'm in California it's never that big of an issue, esp. for JMT...
It's funny how many people I ran into in the summer of 2014 who said "it has never rained like that in the Sierra before". They had stories of people who had tents flood. Lots of leaky jackets. Cold and wet. Some people were heading out. One guy I camped near had a home made tarp. He asked me if I thought the ranger would let him sleep in his cabin. LOL.
Of course it rains like that in Sierra. The monsoon sometimes hits harder than usual. It doesn't happen all that often but when it does it's worth having decent gear. My old jacket leaked on that trip and I remember being envious of the super heavyweight jacket that the ranger I chatted with was wearing. It's still the Sierra, not one of the big ranges, but you can get into trouble.
Now I test my jacket and replace it a bit more often than I used to. Especially nowadays that jackets are marketed by how lightweight they are. They're practically designed to fail after a relatively short period of time.
