[pct-l] Thru numbers

[Diane Soini]

I witnessed this also. Couple years ago I sectioned hiked from San  
Francisquito Road north for a day and met some hikers when I stopped  
at a guzzler to refill my water. They were aghast that I was drinking  
that water and proudly proclaimed that they had managed to hike the  
first 500 miles so far without ever having to use sources like that.  
All their water had come from caches.

I remember one poster here used to argue frequently and adamantly  
that there should be no caches. He was very unpopular. But I think I  
agree with him. That said, I did appreciate the Bird Spring Pass  
cache and Cache 22 on Hat Creek Rim. I found the Anderson's cache to  
be a welcome respite of shade, lounge chairs and fun, something that  
sometimes needs a refill more than water.

On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Timothy Nye wrote:
> This hiker posted how nice it was to hike with only one liter  
> between water sources and about, in at least one instance, avoiding  
> turbid water in order to fill up at a cache. I found this disturbing.