[pct-l] Fwd: solo hiker starting at Walker Pass

[Judson Brown]

My understanding about Joshua Tree Spring was that it contains a level of
uranium that would be a safety issue if you were drinking it every day, not
for someone passing through and getting a couple of quarts. And that the
BLM marked it as unsafe merely as a liability cover-you-butt kind of thing.

Have others heard differently? The levels of uranium would have to be
staggering for a one-time use to be a safety issue...


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jackie McDonnell <yogihikes at gmail.com>wrote:

> I guess that explains why I glow at night!!!
> I've drank from Joshua Spring on four separate thru-hikes.
>
> Yogi
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> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:11 PM, marmot marmot
> <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: marmot marmot <marmotwestvanc at hotmail.com>
> > > Date: February 26, 2014 at 4:08:00 PM PST
> > > To: robert <bobbilbo at msn.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [pct-l] solo hiker starting at Walker Pass
> > >
> > > Joshua Spring is contaminated with Uranium. First water you can use
> > safely is the Needles Creek 1&2.  16+ miles Canebreak has next water 28
> > miles. Needles can be dry. No one should have used Joshua for at least
> the
> > last 20 years  Marmot
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 1:16 PM, "robert" <bobbilbo at msn.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I guess I have a different perspective than iPint about starting at
> > Walker Pass.  Two summers ago a group of us did the section from Walker
> > Pass to Wallace Creek then west to Mineral Springs in late July and early
> > August.  We spread the 51 miles or so to Kennedy Meadows out over 4 days,
> > which isn't a bad way to break into the trail if (like Carly) you're new
> to
> > this sort of thing.  As a result, we finished each day at an excellent
> > water source: Joshua Tree Spring (mile 664), the stream just before
> > Canebrake Rd. (681), and the stream at 694 (scout downstream, left, from
> > the trail).  I'm not sure whether iPint was referring to Joshua Tree
> Spring
> > as tainted, but we filtered/treated/or uved it and it was good and
> > plentiful.
> > >>
> > >> Obviously iPint is right that the peak traffic will have passed, but
> > I've run into a number of thru hikers near Tahoe in late July.  So I say
> go
> > for it.
> > >>
> > >> Bilbo (aka Bob)
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