[pct-l] Hat Creek Rim and Lost Creek

Fri May 1 12:18:21 CDT 2009

On May 1, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Jim Eagleton wrote:

> 1)  Colby - Thanks for restocking the Rt 22 cache.  Is it easy to  
> find?  i.e. which corner off the intersection?

As you approach road 22 from the south, the cache is easily visible  
about 10m off the trail to the left (west), about 50m before the trail  
crosses road 22.  There's a very nice shade area made from branches  
and usually a chair.

>
> 2)  Are there other reliable caches I should be aware of?

I'm not the right person to ask :)

>
> 3)  Going sobo, where is the best place to tank up at Baum/Crystal  
> lakes.  It looks like Rock Creek/aquaduct is the most promising,  
> unless the aquaduct drains Rock Creek, and the aquaduct is  
> inaccessable.  Of course, a faucet at the fish hatchery would be  
> even better.

I'm not sure!  I've visited that area just once, I'll drive over there  
and putter around looking for a public faucet.  My suspicion is that  
the lake itself wouldn't be the best water choice.

>
> 4)  I will be hiking sobo to the cache July 11.   I assume that this  
> is at the lead edge of the pack and the cache should be open and  
> still ok?

My plan is to help keep the 22 cache well stocked.  I'm also going to  
leave a note for hikers that will provide directions to our place in  
the valley where fresh well water is freely available (again, about  
6mi one way, to the west).

- Colby

>
> Regards,
> toc
>
> > From: colby at kraybill.com
> > To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:02:20 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hat Creek Rim and Lost Creek
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:54:16 -0700
> > > From: "Deems" <losthiker at sisqtel.net>
> > > Subject: [pct-l] Hat Creek Rim and Lost Creek
> > > To: "pct" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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> > >
> > > Don't try to hike down to the water you can hear so far below  
> unless
> > > you are
> > > dyingly desperate. The Hat Creek Rim section is one of the USFS
> > > poorest
> > > chosen routes for the PCT; as none of their water well drilling or
> > > built
> > > trails to water on the rim in the early 1980s ever came to  
> fruition.
> > > The PCT
> > > should have been built west of Hwy 89 from Burney Falls to  
> Thousand
> > > Lakes
> > > Wilderness to Lassen NP as Clinton Clarke intended; and hopefully
> > > someday,
> > > with the support of the PCTA and the usfs, it will finally be
> > > rerouted
> > > along the original PCT that Clinton Clarke envisioned. As you hike
> > > along the
> > > Hat Creek Rim, you will be looking across at the 1000 Lakes
> > > Wilderness with
> > > its alpine summits, glacial lakes, creeks and find your thirst
> > > unquenched.
> > > This link is the view down to the Lost Creek water so far below  
> (and
> > > out of
> > > view to the lower right.) If not for the local trail angels, there
> > > would be
> > > no drinkable water along the Hat Creek Rim. Kudos to them, and
> > > scorns to the
> > > usfs.
> > > http://www.pbase.com/losthiker/image/97754979
> >
> > Here's the view from the area where some of the water is piped  
> (close
> > to the spring itself):
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildaleticia/3061006357/sizes/l/
> >
> > Along the surrounding slope down there is certainly a lot of nasty
> > looking talis, but I've yet to climb up above the falls to see what
> > the slopes further up look like.
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildaleticia/3061843772/sizes/l/
> >
> > By the way, my family lives ~6mi from where the PCT crosses road  
> 22 on
> > the rim. I just checked the cache there about 2 hours ago and it
> > appears to have ~3-4gal of water. Tomorrow I'm going up to leave  
> 10gal.
> >
> > - Colby
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ~~~
> > >> Howdie,
> > >>
> > >> The ~26 miles of the PCT that includes the Hat Creek Rim seems  
> to be
> > >> infamous for a lack of water. I find this rather confusing as  
> there
> > >> is a natural spring (Lost Creek) within ~700ft (~400ft of  
> height) of
> > >> the trail. Lost Creek feeds two PG&E power houses and appears  
> to be
> > >> thousands of gallons per minute. However, it is ~6mi from Old
> > >> station, so, that leaves another ~20mi to Crystal and Brown  
> Lakes.
> > >>
> > >> Am I missing something? Not drinkable? Too many boulders?
> > >>
> > >> - Colby
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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