[pct-l] RE: Kennedy Meadows Start

[kbrandt at cats.ucsc.edu (Karl Brandt)]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Robert Ellinwood wrote:

>
> John Brennan writes: " you'd be advised to leave Onyx with full water
> containers since
> the well, and thus the water, at Walker Pass campground was not on in
> 2003."
>
> Whoa...  Do you actually mean not on at ALL???  Or just when you went
> through?  And when was that?   Do others know...was the water off all
> season at Walker Pass CG??  Yikes!
>
> Related to that, I have heard that there may be natural water (small
> spring) in a ravine near the Walker Pass CG.  Has anyone ever seen or
> used it?

When I got to the Walker Pass CG, none of the water faucets were not
working. There's a horse trough fed by a spring about 100 yds. west along
the road. I'm pretty sure the guide book mentions this. I learned later
that there had been a huge crowd of hikers just ahead of me that had
emptied the water tank during their stay.

It was weird in that I had left my backpack hidden up in the campground
while I searched for water. The whole time, I felt naked without my pack.
After a while, it just becomes a part of you. :-)

-Karl

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