[pct-l] Desert Water Capacity?

[Bill Burge]

Brrrito and I left Scissors yesterday evening with 7 and 8 liters respectively and made it to here (Third Gate) with just over 2 liters each. 

It was hot and dry, 90 degrees and we're slow and old.. 

We wanted to do it with no cache hits, but we can't do the next 10 miles to Barrel Springs in this heat on two liters each. 

SomeGuy 
Bill Burge
Typoed on my iPhone...


On Apr 20, 2012, at 4:17 PM, <gschenk1 at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Maggie,
> 
> I left Scissors Crossing with 2 1/2 gallons. It was cool that year, and that water lasted all the way to Warner springs. 2 gallons capacity each will be enough IMO.
> 
> Some people left Scissors with 3 liters. One year the cache was dry, and those people were hurting.
> 
> YMMV HTH HYOH HMHDI
> 
> Gary 
> 
> ---- Maggie Lyons Weller <maggierlyons at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> My husband and I are attempting to thru-hike this year for the first time.
>> We are debating how many of liters of water we should be carrying
>> throughout the desert. Currently, we have to capacity to carry 11 liters
>> each [ (1) 6L drom, (2) 2 L Platypus, and (1) 1L plastic drinking bottle].
>> That would be 22L between the two of us. In light of this years water
>> conditions, is this completely overkill? We would appreciate any and all.
>> suggestions.
>> 
>> Thank you!
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