bsmith
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Water at Ski Hut stream?any recent info on water flow in the stream at the ski hut on the ski hut trail?
i see there are snakes, but no mention of water.
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Zach
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i was up there a week ago and the stream was flowing nicely.
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RichardK
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Ski Hut waterThe spring below the hut and the creek beside the hut had a good flow on October 17. The spring water does not need filtering. We have been drinking it straight for years.
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bsmith
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Re: Ski Hut water | RichardK wrote: | | The spring below the hut and the creek beside the hut had a good flow on October 17. The spring water does not need filtering. We have been drinking it straight for years. |
thanks to you both for the info.
i know where the stream is. i'm not familiar with where i'd find the spring - or do you consider the stream to be as cootie free as the spring?
and without any cattle above that location or any outside chance of gross human waste contaminating, i really can't see the need to filter.
i try to drink wisely. and would have no concerns not filtering - unless you know something i don't.
thanks again.
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RichardK
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Ski Hut springA few hundred feet before reaching the Ski Hut, a spring flows across the trail in two places. The first is pretty thin, but the second has a good flow coming out of a small pile of rocks on the right side of the trail going up. The second is where we refill. I don't mind drinking water that comes out of a rock face. I am a bit concerned about drinking untreated water from any open creek. After all, does a bear poop in the woods? Well, yes! If the Ski Hut is open, you can get water inside. A spring further uphill is piped into the hut (day use fee $1). However, the hut seems to be open only about half of the time.
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bsmith
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Re: Ski Hut spring | RichardK wrote: | | A few hundred feet before reaching the Ski Hut, a spring flows across the trail in two places. |
silly me, i had forgotten about those. i guess i was thinking they were a creek? like i said, silly me!
thanks for the clarification.
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asbufra
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Isn't there an outhouse about 250 feet "uphill" from that spring?
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RichardK
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Outhouse Springs | asbufra wrote: | | Isn't there an outhouse about 250 feet "uphill" from that spring? |
So that's why the water has that whang. 
Yeah, there is an outhouse up there, but I have drunk gallons from that spring at this point without ill effect.
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hvydrt
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| asbufra wrote: | | Isn't there an outhouse about 250 feet "uphill" from that spring? |
Yes. I never drink water from the stream below the crapper. Always fill up at the steam just past the hut. It comes out of the ground 50 feet or so up stream.
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asbufra
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If you look closely the second spring (closer to the Ski Hut) comes out of a pipe. A hiker told me the pipe was a remnant of hydraulic mining activity; I have no reason to doubt Him. That pipe must be well over 100 years old which is kind of cool.
I am no expert but it sounds like both sources are good drinkable water. If I need water I always take it from the stream past the hut, with no ill effects.
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bsmith
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| asbufra wrote: | | If I need water I always take it from the stream past the hut, with no ill effects. |
in looking at the site yesterday - 10.31.2009 - i couldn't determine if the lowest spring is in the same drainage as the ski hut outhouse. the upper spring = there is no doubt it is directly below the ski hut outhouse.
i chose to fill up at the stream alongside the hut - it was flowing quite freely.
the uppermost spring was flowing more freely in the afternoon. the lower didn't seem to change.
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glamisking
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I always assumed the pipe was the water flowing out of the hut sink. But thinking about it now is the flow from the pipe too great to be coming out of the facet above?
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