A little Thursday bidness. Y'all who are slatherin at the chops contemplating the Friday chow, can scroll past this one.
I think the most critical task on Thursday is going to be establishing the water point on the last half of the hike. The water point at the LST Trail crossing on FS223 is going to be easy to get to and we can locate water there with no problem, but we're going to have to hike water in to the other water point.
http://lonestartrail.org/maps/medium/06fournotch_sc.pdf
We also need to be mindful of the fact that we'll need to set up the water points with enough water for the hike in on Saturday, as well as the hike back on Sunday. Some of us are going to be at the Lake early on Thursday, but I think most of us are going to be there after lunch.
How many of you Thursday guys think you want to hike a gallon jug 1.2 miles to the intersection of the LST and the Niederhoffer Loop sometime Thursday evening? We're going to have somewhere around 30 people at each water point on Saturday, and probably a smaller number on Sunday (we can shuttle some folks back to PL8 Sunday AM). If we estimate 8 ounces per person per day at each water point we're looking at a minimum of four gallons at each water point. I figure we can take care of the FS223 point with two 32 bottle cases of good ol' Kroger water, but gallon jugs for the other water point.
Filtering at Boswell is a possibility as well. Dropping near the trail intersection gives us a shorter hike on Thursday PM so we can get back to camp before dark, and its a good recognizable landmark. This gives us the first water point at 1.2 miles, with about 2 miles from there to the next point.
What do you guys think?
Originally Posted by CooOkieCOOon
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