[pct-l] Recruiting New Water Cachers!

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

I was able to carry all the water I needed from Rodriguez Spring (I  
actually got water from the real spring, not the tank) to Barrel  
Spring. A water cache is not really needed, even though there are  
two. The one at Scissors Crossing is probably enough all by itself,  
although it's not in the most useful location relative to Rodriguez  
Spring. About all you could do there is top off.

On Aug 10, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> From: Hootie Martin <hootie2006 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Recruiting New Water Cachers!
>
>  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.
>
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