[pct-l] Before there were water caches and Trail Angels

[bighummel at aol.com]

Before there were water caches, we found water in the Vulcan Mtns, west of the San Felipes in a cattle pond, filtered it through a bandana, boiled it, filtered it again, hit it with iodine pills and then cooked with it and drank it.? Yuck!? We were desperate but it worked to quell our thirst on an extremely hot day with no water for miles.? 

We sat at a drip, drip, drip spring for three hours to collect one quart in Oregon.

There were several Trail Angels even in the early 1970's, surprising enough, some annual that knew hikers were coming through and the word was passed from year to year, others spontaneous, on-the-spot, like the two brothers in Sth Calif. at a small store, who bought me candy to "help me walk all of those miles".? 

It all seems almost like a dream, now, thirty years later.? 

Greg "Strider" Hummel

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