[pct-l] Lugging Water

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Charles,

A summary of my water-handling method can be seen at
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=264360

Enjoy your planning,

Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Charles Doersch
<charles.doersch at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We're a family of four guys through-hiking next year. We have heaps of
> experience in all sorts of adventure travel -- but the PCT will be new.
>
> Question? What's the common wisdom on how best to lug water between
> reliable water sources in Southern California?
>
> I know about "cameling up" -- and we've done that (golly, in the Sahara
> actually -- traveling with Tuareg camel caravans through bandit territory)--
> but I see stretches of, oh, 68 miles at one point between sources (just
> picking one of the distances at random) -- so carrying enough water for four
> men for that many miles will involve some heft. (And I'm not bringing the
> camel, trust me.)
>
> Any observations on what's worked well for you?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Doersch, Sean McCollum, Matt Holmes, & Chris Corl
> Boulder, Colorado
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