WWNIATT
WB6JPI Report
On Friday Don committed to a hunt. Not much
time to get ready. The 4Runner had wiped out a right front brake (it
was grinding and not braking so good) and when I was charging the air
conditioner, I blew an a/c hose. I was
punishing myself and the 4 Runner by not fixing anything until July
(there is no all day hunt in June due to field day activities), but the
weather seemed cool enough to not require an air conditioner and I
never use the brakes anyway…
The bearing from the Pathfinder start point was
due north and based upon common sense, Don was hiding on Route 2 in the
I can hear two more transmitters further east
but Don insists we have passed a transmitter. I drive back a couple
miles but hear nothing but the two further east. I go east and find
another one including a hike of a mile or so. I am not happy, but I
guess I need the exercise. Still that is no reason to hike.
Now I can hear the transmitter that Don says we
passed. What a neat idea. To hide a transmitter that you can’t hear
until you are 5 miles past it and have to go back. How mean is that.
I had intended to go from west to east on Route
2 to see the neat new repair of the huge landslide that had the road
closed for about 4 years. That meant that I wanted to continue east to
Wrightwood, but Don wanted to go home by going west through
Don caught up with Deryl and followed him to
the passed T and got there just as I was leaving for the east T. On the
way it started raining. Yes, raining and it rained quite hard for about
15-20 minutes and then was sprinkling when Don showed up. I was sitting
waiting for it to stop before I ventured out on what must be another
hike when Don arrives. We sit a while and finally I say I am tired and
hungry and Don goes and gets the T and lets me sign in inside my
4Runner all warm and snug. Such a nice guy, not al all the mean and
nasty fellow that would hide a transmitter that you couldn’t hear until
you were five miles past it.
Jippy
