[pct-l] Stehekin

[ed faubert]

Meadow Ed here...........
You may be ON to something here Jason about US working with Them at Stehekin PO.
One thing i know from my years as a PCT hiker and trail Angle is that some hikers tend to send  their boxes early to a town to insure they arrive on time.  Help me here folks but if the boxes we send to the town of S by boat all must first pass thru Chelan to be put on the boat daily. What about the folks who quit the trail and whose boxes by then do not need to go there. Or folks whose boxes show up a week or so early and simply sit there and take up space..... 
Can someone find out if some boxes can be "held" in Chelan and only put on the boat when that person leaves Stevens pass (or Skykomish) and save some space up there. Worst scenario is to call or have the PO call down to the PO in Chelan to send your box up the next day.....
Any comments on this as a workable solution for everyone ....... 
--- On Thu, 2/5/09, jason moores <jmmoores at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: jason moores <jmmoores at hotmail.com>
Subject: [pct-l] Stehekin
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 4:09 PM

I have one last thing to say about Stehekin, and that is to reiterate what both
monty and ed pointed out.

The Courtney's (Cliff and his sister-in-law Robbie own the ranch and bakery
and are bidding for the '09 concession at the Landing) love Hiker Trash and
will go well beyond the norm to ensure that your stay with them is pleasant.

Stehekin is a hiker Haven and Heaven. Few could argue the beauty and serenity
that exists in this remote village. A few years back a cell company offered to
set up towers to bring Stehekin into the new millennium. Petitions  were signed
by almost all 100 inhabitants to prevent this from happening. To this day only a
few sat. phones and the internet conect these people with the rest of the world.
Hundreds of miles of trail radiat from the valley. The only way in or out is by
boat, plane or foot. That's my kind of town.

By opening the discussion about the possibile problems that might be faced with
the overwhelmed postal service here, I in no way wished to discourage anyone
from visiting the valley. I merely felt that something as important as this was
worth discussing.

jason

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