[jyl]

They had an 85 oz water container, I think I read it was a bladder type - that’s 1.3 gallons for two adults, dog and infant on an 8 mile hike - about 4 hours on foot - that they had completed 7 miles of. It was a brutally hot day (up to 109F) but they would surely have started in the cooler morning. Something still doesn’t add up. It could have been as simple as accidentally spilling most of the water (no mention in media of a second container) or getting lost for some extra miles, but I think something had to have gone pretty wrong. Two quarts is less than I’d want for four hours on foot in very hot weather, but you’d make it.