Re: [at-l] water

[kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>]

If this summer is droughty as last summer was, you could
see some problems starting maybe in  PA by mid /late
July.  We are in our third year of drought conditions or sub normal rain and
the springs just have nothing to draw on.  We could use some snow....
The good news is you can often follow the terrain down past where the
spring used to emerge and find it popping up further down the way.
The bad news is it's further down the way.........
Mostly this isn't a problem till after Port Clinton, except for Peter's 
Mountain.
The water is allllways further down there <g>.


At 12:49 PM 1/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I will be doing my AT hike this year, and am wondering which
>sections of the AT dry up and at what time.
>
>Abet
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HikingHope@aol.com <HikingHope@aol.com>
>To: kendall@enter.net <kendall@enter.net>; at-l@backcountry.net
><at-l@backcountry.net>
>Date: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [at-l] fleece and doves.
>
>
>In a message dated 1/23/2000 11:27:50 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>kendall@enter.net writes:
>
><< If I were through
>hiking this year I would start about a month earlier than usual,
>say around the first of February, to beat the heat and avoid the
>drying springs. >>
>
>Absolutely.  And I hope that people will forget the feeds and
>just bring
>water to trail crossings if they want to be true angels.   It is
>silly, since
>I am so far away, but I have been collecting plastic gallon jugs
>for the past
>12 months to use if I should ever be in a position to help in
>that way.  Even
>if I had none of these, a jug of drinking water sold at a
>discount grocery
>and delivered to a trailhead costs far more and would be
>appreciated
>infinitely more that a huge feed anytime.  Of course, this also
>entails
>picking up the plastic jug after it is emptied.  IMHO
>
>Kinnickinic
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