[pct-l] water at South Brown Mtn Shelter

[Jackie McDonnell]

That sounds about right.  Debbie said the hiker who reported it dry had to
go 25 miles between sources.

Yogi
www.yogisbooks.com
On Jun 17, 2014 12:03 PM, "Dennis Phelan" <dennis.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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