[pct-l] Lugging Water

[Ate Tuna]

It really helps if your group can travel fast and far.  That will help you
avoid dry camping, and may also allow you to take siestas during the hottest
part of the day.  I have to add about 2 liters when I dry camp.  Using a
recent copy of Asabat's PCT water report increases the number of reliable
water sources, and decreases the number of miles you have to hike between
them.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:03 PM, 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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