markhallam - May 10, 2016 1:08 am - Voted 10/10
Ahhhh - I understand now...I remembered you had said the water at La Hollada was the best to be had anywhere - and we found it undrinkable this year. Your photo shows yellow sulphur containing rocks all alongside the steam - most of which was hidden under snow when we were there. But I think the snow was melting and leaching sulphur (and other stuff)into the stream... and the taste was foul!
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Mark
(PS I'm looking at all your photos to see which I can use for the updated Plata Traverse route page)
Corax - May 11, 2016 7:58 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Ahhhh - I understand now...The water from some of the streams were smelling of sulphur, but we used the water from the melt off from the penitentes fields/ice. It was fresh and nice.
Much better than the highly suspect stream in Salto camp where I saw people washing their armpits, washing dishes etc. During calm nights the sound of people peeing a bit here and there could be heard. Also you may have paid attention to "mummified" (and fresher) piles of "brown stuff" very close to that stream. Yuk!
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