[pct-l] Carrying extra water, which container(s) do you use?

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Anne,

I’ve used rigid, semi-rigid, and flexible bulk storage containers and much
prefer the flexible platy’ types.  Attributes I like are how compliant they
are to adapt to space available in a pack; I like the fact that they
diminish in volume as water is consumed; and I like the way air can be
burped out to eliminate that obnoxious sloshing noise.

Over the years I’ve only had one “failure”, and that was a small ooze at a
bad seal in one of the top seams which I quickly patched with a bit of duct
tape.

http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=264360

For in-route drinking I use a tall, skinny, plastic bottle which – in
addition to fitting well in my pack’s side pocket – does not slosh nearly
as badly as the short, fat Gatorade bottles.

Enjoy your planning,

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Anne Estoppey <anne_estoppey at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> I am planning to hike PCT in 2013. I am therefore in the process of
> collecting information about gear. I found numerous gear lists and I picked
> out some items already.
>
> There is one thing though I didnt find much information about. It is about
> carrying a large amount of water, while hiking in SoCal and in case the
> water springs are dry.
>
> I imagine carrying 1 gal of water is fine, in a platypus for instance. But
> how do you carry 2 gallons or maybe 2.5?
> Can you have several platypus in your backpack without it to be 'slushing
> around'?
> Do you carry extra water in other types of containers? Which ones?
>
> I would be happy to hear about your experiences, good or bad!
>
> Thanks a lot in advance :-)
> Cheers
> Anne
>