Weathering pits, backcountry water holes, tiny ecosystems
TweetFinding backcountry water is essential. Recognizing potential wild sources, terrains of opportunity, can be an exercise in counter-intuitive searching. Common advice suggests searching the local low spots, ravines, arroyo’s, washes, and so on for low seeps, springs, and shallow groundwater exposed in hand dug wells in stream meander sand bars. These are usually higher probability locales than local high spots nearby. Weathering pits are one important exception. Weathering pit water holes have saved lives! Weathering pits are unique terrain features…