Warning: the PCT water report was 3 days stale and I nearly ran dry near Acton

I found out the hard way last week that the PCT water report I downloaded was from Tuesday and two key caches had already gone dry by Thursday, so has anyone else gotten burned trusting timestamps on those community water updates?

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rowan96921d ago

Got caught the same way myself last summer near the Mojave. I had checked a report that was only a day old, but that one afternoon of heavy foot traffic drained a cache I was counting on. Now I always carry an extra gallon bladder beyond what the reports suggest, just in case.

jasonallen7d ago

Turns out the PCT water report is more like a gentle suggestion than a hard fact. I swear those timestamps are printed in disappearing ink. Now I treat any cache listed as "reliable" the same way I treat a weather forecast for a sunny day - I pack for a flood anyway.

henryp4021d ago

Man, that's rough. I got burned bad on the same kind of thing a couple years back, nothing worse than counting on a source and finding a dusty pipe. Hope you had enough backup water to make it through okay.