[pct-l] Lugging Water

[Cosmic Cat]

Hi Charles.

As far as I can remember,  the maximum waterless stretch on the pct is just
over 30 miles. This happens twice: kelso valley in socal and the Hat Creek
Rim in norcal.

Both sections have well maintained caches and kelso valley has fairly
reasonable off trail sources. I was fine with 1.5 gallon capacity for the
whole trail.

Where are you getting your info? Yogi's Guide is a good place to start.

Goodness
On May 3, 2011 5:10 AM, "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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