[pct-l] Fwd: solo hiker starting at Walker Pass

[Jackie McDonnell]

I guess that explains why I glow at night!!!
I've drank from Joshua Spring on four separate thru-hikes.

Yogi
www.yogisbooks.com


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:11 PM, marmot marmot
<marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> > From: marmot marmot <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>
> > Date: February 26, 2014 at 4:08:00 PM PST
> > To: robert <bobbilbo at msn.com>
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] solo hiker starting at Walker Pass
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> > Joshua Spring is contaminated with Uranium. First water you can use
> safely is the Needles Creek 1&2.  16+ miles Canebreak has next water 28
> miles. Needles can be dry. No one should have used Joshua for at least the
> last 20 years  Marmot
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> > Sent from my iPhone
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> >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 1:16 PM, "robert" <bobbilbo at msn.com> wrote:
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> >> I guess I have a different perspective than iPint about starting at
> Walker Pass.  Two summers ago a group of us did the section from Walker
> Pass to Wallace Creek then west to Mineral Springs in late July and early
> August.  We spread the 51 miles or so to Kennedy Meadows out over 4 days,
> which isn't a bad way to break into the trail if (like Carly) you're new to
> this sort of thing.  As a result, we finished each day at an excellent
> water source: Joshua Tree Spring (mile 664), the stream just before
> Canebrake Rd. (681), and the stream at 694 (scout downstream, left, from
> the trail).  I'm not sure whether iPint was referring to Joshua Tree Spring
> as tainted, but we filtered/treated/or uved it and it was good and
> plentiful.
> >>
> >> Obviously iPint is right that the peak traffic will have passed, but
> I've run into a number of thru hikers near Tahoe in late July.  So I say go
> for it.
> >>
> >> Bilbo (aka Bob)
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