[pct-l] Water Cache at Scissors Xing

[Ron Graybill]

I have written to Larry, who lives near Scissors Crossing and maintained
the water cache under the bridge at Scissors Crossing about the possibility
of moving the cache to the north side of S2, a little way up the dry wash
that leads from that upper parking lot up to the trail. We'll see what he
thinks. That location would not be visible from that upper parking lot, and
it would not appeal to local teens, weekend bikers or 4 wheelers as a place
to hang out and drink beer.  The water might get hot, but at least it would
be wet and help hikers make it to 3rd Gate. Of course, if the trash problem
is created by hikers, this solution might not help.  Ron "Slo Charger"
Graybill


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Timothy Nye <timpnye at gmail.com> wrote:

> I attended the annual meeting of the PCTA this month. After the meeting I
> asked, privately, how many permits had been issued this year. This
> information is not being released.  I can imagine what this means, both for
> Scissors and further up the trail.
>
> This trash can very well be due to hikers. We need everyone on trail to
> put on their "big boy/girl pants/skirts/kilts". The problem as I see it, is
> that this influx of hikers this year by and large didn't get to experience
> the trail in an uncrowded state as most previous years hikers did,
> relatively speaking of course.
>
> I don't know how a sense of responsibility can be communicated, but the
> loss of caches may well serve to limit numbers assuming most don't just
> hitch around the dry parts.
>
> Scissors crossing
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I have no idea what's *actually* going on at Scissors Crossing but with
> ~50
> >> thrus per day in that area right now,
> >
> > 350 a week? really? Over 1000 in this 3 week prime period alone?
> >
> > Is the PCT already reaching these levels?
> >
> > I'm not out there so I don't know, but that seems like an awful lot.
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Ronald D. Graybill
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