[pct-l] water at South Brown Mtn Shelter

[Dennis Phelan]

I sure hope the well still works.  Planning to hike through there in august
and was planning on staying there and getting water.  I don't see any other
water sources close.  Half mile has one 12 miles south and one 11 miles
north.
On Jun 15, 2014 9:45 PM, "Jackie McDonnell" <yogihikes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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