[pct-l] Carrying Water Advisory

[Peter Sanderson]

I use dehydrated water whenever possible - it's tricky to do, but it saves a
lot of weight.


On 01/02/07, The Mountain Goat <themtgoat at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> yes, its %10.56 heavier, that means that instead of 2LB per quart of
> water, you would carry 2.21 LBs for every quart. In addition it would
> eventually kill you after
> about 2 weeks. You would basically be giving yourself "radiation poising",
> although technical heavy water is not radioactive...
>
> If you were carrying say 6 quarts of Heavy water, it would weigh about
> 6.6LB's,
> instead of the lighter 6LB's. Just use the normal water. And no building
> nuclear
> bombs while your on the trail, I know it can get a little boring after
> awhile, but
> stick with it. Manning Park, is just around the next "parallel" maker.
>
>