camping post-tx

[Guest guest]

This question is inspired by Maureen's Jim, but given how much she's

got going now, anyone is welcome to answer.

How do you handle water purity? We were just car camping but the site

had no tap- we got water from either the creek, or a tap in Tuolomne

Meadows. Tuolomne's water just failed a test for turbidity, but isn't

known to be contaminated with Giardia or Criptosporidium. I was

thinking though, if I were post-transplant, I'd probably want to boil

or filter purify everything just in case, so I was curious about what

Jim and any other post tx hikers do?

I just got back from my trip to San Francisco and Yosemite. We spent 4

idyllic days camping above Tioga Pass at 10,000 ft, with my family and

some old friends. The odds were against us getting up there because

the trip started with my mom going back into the hospital for a week,

the day after we arrived, and ended, after midnight, after a day of

flying on Southwest, the airline with family-unfriendly seating, with

our 6 year old child, under the new dehydration regulations, with

being greeted by melted moldy ice cream running out of our brand new

fridge, which had blown its breaker while we were gone. (Now, THAT was

a run-on sentence!) In between were some great parts, like swimming in

mountain streams, sledding on our butts in shorts and overcoming my

fear of heights to get up to the top of a granite dome (it was called

Puppy dome, to give you an idea of the magnitude, or minitude, of this

achievement). In short, I loved it and want to go back as often as we can!

Martha (MA)

UC, 1979, PSC 1992, asymptomatic, STILL!