[pct-l] C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

I suppose nobody would gather at the 3rd gate were it not for the  
water cache. I suppose that they figure if the fire needs putting out  
there's enough water there to do it. However, if they aren't using  
the cache water to put the fire out then they aren't putting it out.  
I think that all these water caches should go. They make people too  
disconnected from their environment. You can hike from Rodriguez  
Spring (and there's a real spring further down the road, you don't  
need the tank) to Barrel Spring without a cache. It's only one night  
between the two. I've gone two nights many times in So Cal carrying  
all the water I need.