[pct-l] PCT Thru Hike Resupply Strategy

[joel01 at ekit.com]

You can certainly do a lot of resupply along the way if you aren't 
too picky about what you eat, but you run into several issues in 
certain places: Lack of variety, lack of quality nutrition and in 
addition, a possible lack of any food at all if a large number of 
hikers or weekenders have passed through just in front of you. Also, 
a well placed drop box can save you hitching from a remote location. 
Plus, how many diversions off trail do you want to make when a mail 
drop could have saved you from needing to.

To name just a couple of situations:

Kennedy Meadows, right before hitting the Sierra, was great for 
supplementing my mail drop with a few fresher items but I wouldn't 
have wanted to completely resupply from there.

Snoqualmie Pass just didn't have that much stuff and it's a long 
hitch to Seattle.

Stehekin in Washington has a small store but not much in it and by 
that point a Nobo is wanting the extra calories. 

Joel (aka Vlad the Impaler)




Quoting Phil Newhouse <newhoupa1 at gmail.com>:

>Does anyone have an idea of how many thru-hikers
>have completed the PCT
>without employing the "drop box" resupply strategy:
>i.e. they resupplied
>with whatever they found in "town"
>
>phil of irvine
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