[pct-l] Start Date

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

---- Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com <diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote: 
> Steel-Eye,
> Is this really true?
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:01 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> > Water availability at Walker Pass is ?iffy?
> > and a bit of a nuisance to find -- even at the campground -- and  
> > there may
> > or may not be a water cache where the trail crosses the highway.
> 
> All three times I've been to Walker Pass I found a huge concrete  
> container full of cattails and water. It's about 4 feet high. If you  
> go around to the back of it, there's a pipe dripping slowly into the  
> container with fresh, clean water coming out. If for some reason it's  
> not running, you can filter water from the concrete container.
> 
> To find this container, you just walk a quarter mile down the highway  
> to to west. There is a road cut in the hill on your left. When that  
> ends, drop down and find first a small rectangular concrete basin and  
> then to your left, a much larger one. Beware of the stinging nettles.

Are people becoming so dependent on water caches that they forget about natural water sources? I thought this spring was pretty well known.

Wondering,
Gary