[pct-l] PCTA Statement on Water Caches

[marmot marmot]

What I thought was interesting were the water caches at water sources. To me Gate 3 makes sense.  Leaving gallons of water at Pioneer less sense and at the next source right along the hwy  Please do not imagine that anyone devalues the angels help. That sort of kindness is so overwhelming. I would just like to encourage people to imagine how they can use/develop their planning skills. 
Marmot

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> On Mar 2, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com> wrote:
> 
> 2015-03-02 13:40 GMT-08:00 Robert E. Riess <robert.riess at cox.net>:
>>  Are water caches any more
>> unsightly in the wilderness than 1000 wind turbines placed there and
>> operated for a profit?
> 
> I have a question. 4 of the 7 points in Haskel's piece are about the
> caches impacting the trail due to concentrating hiker use.
> 
> I thought the majority of the caches are at or very near, road
> crossings, and those areas are already impacted by the road, and often
> by heavy use by non hikers, such as the area around Scissors Crossing,
> which is a heavily used party spot on weekends, which has a huge
> impact from these automotive visitors,
> 
> This seems invalidate those 4 concerns ( Decreasing wildness, Trash
> and the relics of town collect around caches, Caches become camps,
> Cache locations are unstudied) because these areas are already heavily
> impacted.
> 
> Am I wrong about the caches being located at road crossings?
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