[pct-l] Start Date

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, Diane,



My comments are appropriate for someone starting from the Walker Pass
turn-out parking area where the PCT crosses the highway.  The campground
facilities and the water tank are ¾ to 1 mile west of the pass summit –
depending upon how much wandering around one does to find the tank – and
much handier to a hiker coming from the south.  Beginning at the pass that’s
about an hour lost time compared to having sufficient water when arriving at
the trailhead.



Enjoy….



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

> Steel-Eye,
> Is this really true?
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:01 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> > Water availability at Walker Pass is ?iffy?
> > and a bit of a nuisance to find -- even at the campground -- and
> > there may
> > or may not be a water cache where the trail crosses the highway.
>
> All three times I've been to Walker Pass I found a huge concrete
> container full of cattails and water. It's about 4 feet high. If you
> go around to the back of it, there's a pipe dripping slowly into the
> container with fresh, clean water coming out. If for some reason it's
> not running, you can filter water from the concrete container.
>
> To find this container, you just walk a quarter mile down the highway
> to to west. There is a road cut in the hill on your left. When that
> ends, drop down and find first a small rectangular concrete basin and
> then to your left, a much larger one. Beware of the stinging nettles.
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