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"Can't wait for him to star in the "documentary". See if he can act thirsty. Arrogant and dumb should be easy."

Maybe he could write a best selling book.

To be a little kind and understanding, I imagine that it is difficult to know for sure about water sources this year in particular. He had jumped to northern CA, where I don't recall any water caches --- the real problems have always been in southern CA, at least in the past (in "normal years").

It's interesting to me that he found SoCal "too dry" so that his parents moved him up to NorCal. He started at a very typical start time (and I wonder if he had one of the new limited per-day permits to do so ...); while I'm sure it's challenging this year, I've not heard of other thru-hikers flipping due to dry conditions. I suspect he would have been better off staying with the herd and learning from more experienced hikers along the way.

I have to wonder if he even knew about that most critical of SoCal PCT hiker documents, the water report? http://pctwater.com/