So I want to do a few hikes in the desert but I'm not sure how to sustain my water capacity throughout the trip, anyone have experience finding semi reliable water to purify/filter on a desert outing?
Location: Mojave/Nevada area
Bump, all the internet is giving me is unpractical solar collectors and digging my own well
>>750070
If you go bit southeast of Primm, you should be able to get some outside of town.
Basically you gotta ruck it all on your back, unless you wanna dig for water but it's unlikely you'd be able to dig far enough to reach underground sources of water since its the Mojave after all.
>t. desert person
>>750086
YUUUUURRRRKKK YURRRKKK YURRK YUUUURRRRKKKKKKK!!!!!
>T. Raider
Carry it all in with you. You might be able to find enough to survive. Key word survive. Not enough to be comfortable.
>t. Made that mistake
>>750104
most, if not all you carry WILL be water, use STURDY, collapsible bottles/jugs, wheeled cart or something to carry those gallons of water, setup a solar distiller if you need to cook/purify your pee/water from area.
SHADE, portable(good tarps/space blankets)
COTTON(there's a reason all those Saudi's use it and silk everywhere)
Shelter from cold during the night a must
plus space blanket, when properly tied up and allowed to collect night to day dew will give you a couple cups of water depending. Better to travel during the evenings and night to stay warm, rest during the mornings and noonday sun.
Also true about waterline being too dang deep, even at dried up riverbeds. Better to distill your piss and collect moisture from the air/clean that via uv/filter, and of course HAUL IT IN/OUT.
>>750070
Learn the location of springs, cache water so you don't have to carry it all the time.
>>750204
Do go fucking up a cactus just so you can play pretend survival
Carry your water or go home
do what the coyotes do. look for an area that is greener than others and has greener trees and bushes and sheeeit. there may be a dried up river or lake there, look for the lowest spot and dig like 3 feet and you'll probably find water. probably.
>>750224
>digging random holes in the desert
This is bad advice and fucks up the land
>>750070
the whole point of it being a desert is there pretty much is none. you gotta pack it with you.
in reality you need 2L a day. you will be feeling it on the other side, but you can do it with that. if you want to pack a gallon a day go ahead, but that shit gets heavy.
i have hiked palo alto, death valley, and an epic 60 mile beach hike through padre. and we always ended up with sunburns and extra water.
nigga you ain't gonna find no water plan for that. but unless you are hanging around 2l a day should get you through a few days.
>>750085
>micky.jpg from fo3
>Primm from NV
>>750222
Oh, because you own all of the cactus in the desert?
You do realize that harvesting water from cacti is desert survival 101, right?
>>750456
Why are you in a survival situation?
Because you failed at planning?
>survival 101
This is not some silly TV show
Cacti grow really slow.
>>750078
How about practical solar collectors. The first one not the shitty hole in the ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_oys-AQ_3E
snow,
>>750204
No.
That's some dumb Looney Tunes shit.
>>750070
Make yourself a water suit.
>>750070
ugh.....dehydration sucks. was hiking in AZ and we started to ration, we're never in any real danger, ended with water left over but even cutting back was a terrible experience.
>>750204
Eating the inside of a cactus to 'get water'will give you the shits so fast.
>>750456
No, no it's not. Cactus is super high in alkaline, you'll give yourself diarrhea or vomt everything up, and lose more water.
>>750070
Mountains in the desert usually hide water. Learn to look for game trails thru the desert, animals live in the desert and need water.warm up w a more forgiving desert. Like some of the terrain outside of Moab in Utah. Hiking in desert slot canyons you'll be more likely to find water
