[pct-l] Lugging Water

[Charles Doersch]

Thanks, everyone.

@ Goodness: I've ordered Yogi's -- been waiting for it to be delivered for
quite awhile. Hope nothing's amiss.

I've been reading the _Southern California: Pacific Crest Trail_ by
Schifrin, et al. I just realized I've been conflating "Water Access with
"Resupply Access" -- that's where I saw the larger mileage.

Well, that solves much!

Yep -- I've been wondering about the Nalgene Canteen -- the MSR DromoLite --
the Platypus. Different weights. Different reviews. Some leak -- for some
folks. Some don't.

We generally drink water untreated -- but we try to be smart (bold, not
reckless) about where we pull the water from. At my age and given how many
places I've drunk water from, I apparently have resistance to lots of stuff
that naturally occurs in surface water. But some of the photos of water
tanks in So. Cal. -- stock tanks -- looked iffy. So may bring a little
Clorox with me for those.

Cheers!

I'm going to post a separate subject line for questions on cooking with MSR
tanks.


On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Cosmic Cat <cosmic.cat144 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I forgot scissors crossing. But it has a decent collection of caches, off
> trail springs, and emergency bailouts.
>
> Goodness
> On May 3, 2011 7:13 AM, "Cosmic Cat" <cosmic.cat144 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Charles.
> >
> > As far as I can remember, the maximum waterless stretch on the pct is
> just
> > over 30 miles. This happens twice: kelso valley in socal and the Hat
> Creek
> > Rim in norcal.
> >
> > Both sections have well maintained caches and kelso valley has fairly
> > reasonable off trail sources. I was fine with 1.5 gallon capacity for the
> > whole trail.
> >
> > Where are you getting your info? Yogi's Guide is a good place to start.
> >
> > Goodness
> > On May 3, 2011 5:10 AM, "Charles Doersch" <charles.doersch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> We're a family of four guys through-hiking next year. We have heaps of
> > experience in all sorts of adventure travel -- but the PCT will be new.
> >>
> >> Question? What's the common wisdom on how best to lug water between
> > reliable water sources in Southern California?
> >>
> >> I know about "cameling up" -- and we've done that (golly, in the Sahara
> > actually -- traveling with Tuareg camel caravans through bandit
> territory)--
> > but I see stretches of, oh, 68 miles at one point between sources (just
> > picking one of the distances at random) -- so carrying enough water for
> four
> > men for that many miles will involve some heft. (And I'm not bringing the
> > camel, trust me.)
> >>
> >> Any observations on what's worked well for you?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Charles Doersch, Sean McCollum, Matt Holmes, & Chris Corl
> >> Boulder, Colorado
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