The Southwest United States is pretty arid country. Hows the water situation along the GET?
Pretty AND arid. Or perhaps pretty because of it. In any case, the availability of water is always a concern when hiking in the Southwest, which is why the GET was designed to maximize the odds of finding it and to minimize the distances between sources. It does this by brushing up against seemingly every spring, creek, river, windmill, and cow tank that occurs along the way. In the desert, this means following drainage courses as often as possible. Aravaipa Creek and the Alamosa River, for example, are year-round sources that the GET follows for a fair number of miles, all the while benefiting from the cooling shade of cottonwoods and willows that grow along the stream banks. Where surface water is unavailable, the GET seeks out stock tanks and windmills, many of which were producing clear, flowing water during my spring 2005 thru-hike, albeit the stock tanks I would chemically treat to make potable. And although these sources are never guaranteed to be wet, the route passes a suffici
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