[pct-l] water at South Brown Mtn Shelter

[Jackie McDonnell]

Debbie said that the hiker had been without water for many miles, and that
she tried and tried and tried, but the pump wouldn't bring any water up.

I wasn't there myself.

Yogi
www.yogisbooks.com


On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Little Brown wrote:
> >
> There is a pretty good well at the shelter but you have to pump the pump
> like you freakin' mean it to get the water up.  Could be the seals finally
> gave out totally or the hiker just wasn't aggressive enough with the pump.
> >
>
> Yup, I was thinking the same thing.  I was there last September and if you
> didn't really apply some serious energy to the problem, you could easily
> come to the conclusion that the pump didn't work.  Maybe it's finally died
> for good, or maybe the person reporting no water just didn't work hard
> enough.
>
> Eric
>
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