Sawyers water purifier continues to tempt me.

Over at the Yahoo pct2007 group, the Sawyer water filter continues to get converts. One of the group posted these pictures of it. The person also put a slit filter and a carbon filter inline. It looks like a really great thing… but I have already bought 4 packages of Aqua Mira so probably for this trip– Aqua Mira it will be.

Update:  I bought it and so far have not gotten it to work.  Read my review here

Trail wisdom from Mr. Snyder’s class.

The year I thru-hiked the PCT, on the trail for the first 500 miles or so, about every 20-30 miles, under a rock, was a laminated letter from a kid in Mr. Snyder’s class. The letters offered words of encouragement and told us about challenges that the kids had overcome. One letter said, “The pain in your feet is just the doubt in your head.”