[pct-l] Water, hydration etc.

Scott Bryce sbryce at scottbryce.com
Sun Feb 15 10:09:10 CST 2009


Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com wrote:
> My problem was that I never quite got it into my head that 20+ miles
>  was just one day of hiking. So if water was 20 miles apart, did I 
> need to carry 5 liters? No, because I would never drink that much in
>  a day (some people do, some people drink even more, but I do not. If
>  I did I would probably die.)

I have mentioned this here before, but I was drinking 2 gallons of water
a day and arrived at Pines to Palms highway badly dehydrated.

Everyone's water needs are different. The conditions we hike in are
different.



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