Dark Canyon Complex Water Data

Check your PM’s. Also did you get to Moki or Moqui spring, wild cow spring or sweet alice spring on your last trip? How were they for water?

I finally got a decent answer from someone over at canyoncollective. I’ll probably modify my plans accordingly.

Moki Cave was/has been turned into a corral. The spring in the back right is there, but it was a trickle in May. I doubt more than 2 liters would have been collected during a night. The cave was also partially covered in cow pies. Outside the cave is a cattle trough. And while it was full of water, it was also thickly covered in algae, or something swamp green. The trough was being feed by rusted out piping that lead in the direction of the spring. We did not trust this as a good source for water. I imagine the blooms could’ve been pushed to the side, in order to collect as clear of water as possible. But I was unsure what the quality of the water would’ve been even once filtered, and at least at that point thought I had plenty until the next spring. Which I did, except that the next spring was basically a cattle wading pool being feed by a stream bed that was evidently a cattle route. Passed that up too.