[pct-l] Hat Creek Rim and Lost Creek

[Jim Eagleton]

1)  Colby - Thanks for restocking the Rt 22 cache.  Is it easy to find?  i.e. which corner off the intersection?

2)  Are there other reliable caches I should be aware of?  

3)  Going sobo, where is the best place to tank up at Baum/Crystal lakes.  It looks like Rock Creek/aquaduct is the most promising, unless the aquaduct drains Rock Creek, and the aquaduct is inaccessable.  Of course, a faucet at the fish hatchery would be even better.

4)  I will be hiking sobo to the cache July 11.   I assume that this is at the lead edge of the pack and the cache should be open and still ok?  

Regards,

toc
 
> From: colby at kraybill.com
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:02:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hat Creek Rim and Lost Creek
> 
> >
> >
> > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:54:16 -0700
> > From: "Deems" <losthiker at sisqtel.net>
> > Subject: [pct-l] Hat Creek Rim and Lost Creek
> > To: "pct" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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> > Don't try to hike down to the water you can hear so far below unless 
> > you are
> > dyingly desperate. The Hat Creek Rim section is one of the USFS 
> > poorest
> > chosen routes for the PCT; as none of their water well drilling or 
> > built
> > trails to water on the rim in the early 1980s ever came to fruition. 
> > The PCT
> > should have been built west of Hwy 89 from Burney Falls to Thousand 
> > Lakes
> > Wilderness to Lassen NP as Clinton Clarke intended; and hopefully 
> > someday,
> > with the support of the PCTA and the usfs, it will finally be 
> > rerouted
> > along the original PCT that Clinton Clarke envisioned. As you hike 
> > along the
> > Hat Creek Rim, you will be looking across at the 1000 Lakes 
> > Wilderness with
> > its alpine summits, glacial lakes, creeks and find your thirst 
> > unquenched.
> > This link is the view down to the Lost Creek water so far below (and 
> > out of
> > view to the lower right.) If not for the local trail angels, there 
> > would be
> > no drinkable water along the Hat Creek Rim. Kudos to them, and 
> > scorns to the
> > usfs.
> > http://www.pbase.com/losthiker/image/97754979
> 
> Here's the view from the area where some of the water is piped (close 
> to the spring itself):
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildaleticia/3061006357/sizes/l/
> 
> Along the surrounding slope down there is certainly a lot of nasty 
> looking talis, but I've yet to climb up above the falls to see what 
> the slopes further up look like.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildaleticia/3061843772/sizes/l/
> 
> By the way, my family lives ~6mi from where the PCT crosses road 22 on 
> the rim. I just checked the cache there about 2 hours ago and it 
> appears to have ~3-4gal of water. Tomorrow I'm going up to leave 10gal.
> 
> - Colby
> 
> 
> >
> > ~~~
> >> Howdie,
> >>
> >> The ~26 miles of the PCT that includes the Hat Creek Rim seems to be
> >> infamous for a lack of water. I find this rather confusing as there
> >> is a natural spring (Lost Creek) within ~700ft (~400ft of height) of
> >> the trail. Lost Creek feeds two PG&E power houses and appears to be
> >> thousands of gallons per minute. However, it is ~6mi from Old
> >> station, so, that leaves another ~20mi to Crystal and Brown Lakes.
> >>
> >> Am I missing something? Not drinkable? Too many boulders?
> >>
> >> - Colby
> >>
> >>
> >
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