[pct-l] snow inNorthern CA

[Diane Soini]

Many of these seldom-used water sources were noted in the wilderness  
press guide books.

Everyone seems so worried, but I swear to you that learning water  
management and how to prepare good stoveless meals and how to deal  
with all these things that will come up makes you into an awesome  
backpacker. Nothing will phase you. You'll come back home to your  
buddies and go for a little trip and wonder why they are so worried  
about finding a campsite by 2pm or whatever other strange fears they  
have. You'll be right at home in the dry and dusty.

You'll love the arid climate of So Cal, it's so comfortable to hike  
in the dry air. It's not always hot, it gets real cold at night so  
the early morning hours are so nice for hiking and once the sun goes  
over the edge, it starts to cool immediately. There's often a breeze  
that pops up to cool you off during the day.

I personally do not like to hike at night because I find it  
impossible to sit around being hot and doing nothing during the day.  
It's worse if you watch other hikers continuing on. Unless you have a  
really nice shady place to sit around, there's just no relief during  
the day. Might as well generate a soft breeze on your face by hiking.

On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:54 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> From: marmot marmot <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>
> 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