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<DIV><A href="mailto:jeff.singewald@comcast.net">jeff.singewald@comcast.net</A> writes: You found a cache that you had left from the previous year? Wow, that doesn't appear to fit with the leave no trace guidelines. My assumption was that hikers that placed hidden water caches for themselves would be responsible enough to pick them up after they had passed through.</DIV>
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<DIV>RustyKnees replies: Actually, we did No-Trace, but I did it a year late. We never did get to hike that part of the trail until a year later due to some unforeseen circumstances. I put the water bottles under a bush in a black trash bag across from the trail water facility. The only thing that happened in a year was that the black bag had some small animal holes in it, but the water bottles inside were fine. It saved our bacon that those bottle were still there.</DIV>
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