Re: [Philmont]: Enough water?

Are you cooking your dinners for lunch? What you could do is to cook your dinners for lunches. The day of the hike to the Tooth, you would have the lunch for the last supper meal. Less water is needed for lunch meals. This will make your water go further and carry less weight.
You would really need 3 quarts when you head out the last morning to base camp. I have heard of plenty of crews coming in dry to base camp. You should be very light on food and this should compensate on the extra weight of the water. We have the Nalgene bags, 48 oz & 96 oz bags for crew water. 4 of each. The bags are carried by every one, when they are tired the bags are passed to the next one in line. Just make sure the bags are staggered to not make them have a 96 oz bag each time they are passed back. This way you switch from 48 oz to 96 oz each time. I have been out of water on hikes before, this is no fun. I was reminded of the saying, how much would you give for a glass of water in the dessert? Another thing we learned the hard way last year was to fill up at every water source you come to, regardless.
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  From: Rsafl61660@aol.com
  To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
  Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:30 PM
  Subject: [Philmont]: Enough water?

  We will be at Philmont in July (721-B2). We had a shake down hike this past weekend, hiking 11 miles Saturday and 5 on Sunday. We practiced cooking methods that we might use at Philmont, bear bag prep, dining fly set up, and simulated lack of water, ( only refilling our containers 1 time even though we had 2-3 other opportunities at the park). I'm concerned about the water situation. We do not plan on bringing water filters. We will only be using Polar Pure, possibly coffee filters or bandanas if silt is an issue. However we will be on trek #5. From what I gather from previous threads, the hike from Cimarroncito to Tooth Ridge is long, tough and water is sometimes lacking. We are not going to carry 2-3 gallon jugs at 8lbs / gallon. The boys are pretty set on that. The water supply from our bottles once we arrived at our camp site on Saturday was marginal, considering we had another 5 miler on Sunday. Since we will not be carrying a large jug of water to the dry camps, what might be recommended for the crew to carry individually? I'm thinking 4 quarts/ liters per person is not too much, but is it enough? Looking for some experienced feed back.

  Bob S. Indy,
  Philmont '74, and soon to be '04

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Received on Wed May 26 21:02:14 2004