[pct-l] Before there were water caches and Trail Angels

[robo hiker]

30 years ago i was hitchhikin' around europe for the first time and the u.s. for the second time


From: meta474 at gmail.comTo: bighummel at aol.com; pct-l at backcountry.netDate: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:49:36 -0500Subject: Re: [pct-l] Before there were water caches and Trail Angels
hell, thirty years after I do the PCT (2038!) they'll probably be flying around in rocketships and having their real lungs replaced with bionic ones. There won't be any point of reference for walking 2650 miles. Maybe people will get their legs removed and replace with wheels and there won't be a point of reference for walking at all!


On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:42 PM, bighummel at aol.com wrote:

Before there were water caches, we found water in the Vulcan Mtns, west of the San Felipes in a cattle pond, filtered it through a bandana, boiled it, filtered it again, hit it with iodine pills and then cooked with it and drank it.  Yuck!  We were desperate but it worked to quell our thirst on an extremely hot day with no water for miles.  We sat at a drip, drip, drip spring for three hours to collect one quart in Oregon.There were several Trail Angels even in the early 1970's, surprising enough, some annual that knew hikers were coming through and the word was passed from year to year, others spontaneous, on-the-spot, like the two brothers in Sth Calif. at a small store, who bought me candy to "help me walk all of those miles".  It all seems almost like a dream, now, thirty years later.  Greg "Strider" Hummel


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