[pct-l] Re: San Felipe Hills alternate route?

[CMountainDave at aol.com (CMountainDave@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/23/04 5:23:11 PM, Bighummel@aol.com writes:

<< The first edition of the guidebook took us '70's hikers along Volcan 
Mountain 
or just straight up San Felipe Valley Rd.  I believe that I walked along 
Volcan Mountain and found no water other than a small cow pond with lively 
cow 
pies floating.  We poured the water through a bandana to filter the big 
stuff, 
then boiled it and scraped off the foam, and then let it cool enough to put 
in 
the iodine tablets.  Finally, after an hour or more of waiting in 90 degree 
plus heat and no shade, we drank the still warm, light brown water!  No ill 
effects for either of us.  Thus was the state of the art of water filtering 
in 1977.
 >>

Sounds like something out of "Fear Factor". Of course, they would have used 
the water to wash down the sterilized cow pies! David C