[pct-l] Recruiting New Water Cachers!

[Tortoise]

Amen!

Tortoise

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
President John F Kennedy,  1962

All content is copyrighted. Reproduction or use elsewhere is is expressly prohibited without the express permission of the author. Use within the PCT-list is permitted.

On 2012.08.10 08:46, Hootie Martin wrote:
>   Gary,
>
> This is a fantastic idea.  While the 3rd Gate water cache gorillas have
> done an admirable job over the years bringing water up to 3rd Gate, your
> idea of moving the large cache to Scissors Crossing makes a heck of  a lot
> of sense as it would be much easier to maintain the cache given the volume
> of water that is provided.  I would suggest, however, that rather than
> staging it at SC and suggest to thru-hikers that they transport 1-2 gallons
> up to 3rd gate to support a cache at the remote location, that they simply
> carry what they need from the SC location that you have recommened to get
> them to Barrel Springs.
>
> Sure, its a 23 mile waterless section, but there will be other sections
> along the trail that they will need to be prepared to do the same thing and
> thru-hikers should be able to determine early on how the are going to be at
> least somewhat self sufficient in making it through a 20 mile waterless
> section.
>
> I know that I probably do not fall in the majority, but the number of water
> caches has multiplied over the years by a large margin and this has really
> driven the idea of being self sufficient way down.  Many folks on the list
> suggest that thru-hikers do not become reliant on these water caches, but
> frankly, based on the journals that I continue to read, many of today's
> hikers fully depend and in fact plan to hike from cache to cache.
>
> Elevator
>
>
>
>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:30:19 -0400
>> From: <gschenk1 at roadrunner.com>
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Recruiting New Water Cachers!
>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Message-ID: <20120802203020.EH7MH.42646.root at hrndva-web08-z02>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>>
>> ---- Greg Hummel <bighummel at aol.com> wrote:
>>> A few of the 3rd Gate water cache gorillas (3GWCG's) are wishing to
>> retire and the team is looking for new recruits in the San Diego -
>> Escondido area that can help stock this cache for several weeks each
>> spring. The cost of the water is paid for by proceeds from the ADZPCTKO.
>>
>> Here's an idea: since the thru-hikers are going up there anyway, how about
>> they carry the water? They could take small amounts, say 1.5 to 2 gallons
>> each starting at Scissors Crossing.
>>
>> Whattya think?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Pct-L mailing list
> Pct-L at backcountry.net
> To unsubcribe, or change options visit:
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l
>
> List Archives:
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/pct-l/
> All content is copyrighted by the respective authors.
> Reproduction is prohibited without express permission.
>