[pct-l] Fwd: snow inNorthern CA

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-----Original Message-----
From: stonedancer1 <stonedancer1 at aol.com>
To: marmotwestvanc <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 3:07 pm
Subject: Re: [pct-l] snow inNorthern CA


At the ADZPCTKO, there is usually a water report, describing water conditions for the first 500 miles or so.  And the PCTA website has a link to an on-line version of the same report.  Its information is gathered by folks reconnoitering the trail in spring.
 
BUT you do have to be prepared for some water sources to be dry.  Or you miss the turn.  I call this skill, water management, planning your sources and carrying enough to get thru.  And having a "plan B,"  as Marmot describes.
 
Alternatively,  in the past, I have put out my own water caches in the most vulnerable stretches.  I conceal and camoflauge the water jug, write my name and planned arrival date on it, and take a picture of where I hid it, so I can remind myself when I get back there a month or more later.   I have lost one cache to a damaged bottle, out of maybe a dozen caches.  So  have a "plan B."  Oh yeah, I said that already.  8)
 
Stone Dancer
 
Publisher of A Thru-Hiker's Heart, by No Way Ray Echols


-----Original Message-----
From: marmot marmot <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>
To: Mark Liechty <mlaccs at mlaccs.com>
Cc: pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 2:54 pm
Subject: Re: [pct-l] snow inNorthern CA


There didn't used to be trail angels   We carried water(up to 2 gallons) to get 
to natural water sources. Of course it seems to me it's drier now. But there are 
ways to go off trail down the mtns to water. People have just forgotten where 
those sources are.  I filtered out of a sources that meant trying to get the 
water before it hit a cow pie.  That was a spring that is never used any more in 
the Mojave. Another source I can think of is down (east)Jawbone Canyon in the 
Mojave just before the First Nations land. You have to walk a few miles.   
Marmot

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> On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:09 AM, "Mark Liechty" <mlaccs at mlaccs.com> wrote:
> 
> I do not know the answer.  I am a lurker who seeks knowledge for the dream
> I will someday make in the quest to walk from Mexico to Canada.
> 
> That said has there been a year when it really was n to possible to
> get\carry enough water to safely make the trip?  It looks like a lot of
> the water sources away from where people would cache water are going to be
> dry.  That means carrying more and in some cases there may not be a good
> or even a marginal ³next stop².
> 
> Deepest gratitude for whoever goes first and gets notes to those behind as
> to where to find water and hoping that all of the forecasts are wrong and
> we get dumped on in the next few weeks.  But the chances of that seem to
> drop by the day.
> 
> Thoughts from the group?
> 
> 
> 
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