[pct-l] water cache

[Freiman, Paul]

Maybe it's just me, but instead of seeing empty containers I see the kindness of the effort that it took to haul 100 gallons  And I smile.
Capt Bivy
 
 
 
 
From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01 at mac.com>
>Sent: Dec 29, 2007 9:14 AM
>To: Steve Fosdick <hikin_steve at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] ADZPCTKO
>
>
>On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Steve Fosdick wrote:
>
>> KG, I couldn't agree more. I was reading one of the journals 
>> complete with photos, and there was a photo of a water cache. Next 
>> to the cache, on the edge of the trail, were about 100 + empty 1 
>> gallon water bottles in a big pile. What an eye-sore! If every 
>> hiker just took one empty bottle, tied it to the outside of their 
>> pack, and carried it to the next place where they could deposit it 
>> in a trash can, what a difference it would make. And leaving 
>> anything else there in the way of trash would be a real slap in the 
>> face to the angels that do the hard work of carring in the water in 
>> the first place.
>>
>
>I'm pretty sure that many of the cache maintainers reuse those empty 
>plastic
>bottles instead of throwing them in the trash.  That practice doesn't
>help the eye-sore problem, but I think it is better than adding to the
>local landfill.
>
>I think the 'trash' that people are talking about is food wrappers and
>such rather than the empty cache bottles.
>
>Radar