[pct-l] Lugging Water

[Cosmic Cat]

I forgot scissors crossing. But it has a decent collection of caches, off
trail springs, and emergency bailouts.

Goodness
On May 3, 2011 7:13 AM, "Cosmic Cat" <cosmic.cat144 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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