Mr Mec - Yeah we had a guide. Her name was Kelly. Prob around her late 20's. Blonde hair, blue eyes from a small town in IL. She was cool. Never met Hmong people before. She learned a lot from us and we did from her.
We didn't have one of those, but Kelly told us to row to the middle of the lake and get water from there. We boiled it, cooked with it and drank it. The time we went up we couldn't build fires either so we had to carry propane with us for the grill.. My friends also couldn't smoke, nor have a lighter etc.. they also died, I was like thank goodness as I don't smoke. It was hauntingly beautiful in the mornings and oh the GL (government latrines)--- LOL just in the middle of nowhere with no walls. That was a trip.