[pct-l] "buy-as-you-go" strategy and leaving with the pack

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There's a good grocery store in Agua Dulce


Lightweight Backpacking
The fun goes up when the weight goes down
-Warner Springs Monty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "patti kulesz" <peprmintpati88 at yahoo.com>
To: "Julian Plamann" <julian at amity.be>; "Sly" <hikertrash at gmail.com>
Cc: "PCT MailingList" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] "buy-as-you-go" strategy and leaving with the pack


The stop in Agua Dulce may not be as accessable to the big stores any more. 
The Sauffley's had to stop letting us use their vehicle, I imagine for 
insurance purposes...can't say that I blame them. Donna did mention that 
they were gonna try to work out a shuttle service for us but I don't think 
it's written in stone...any word on that one Donna?

patti

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Sly <hikertrash at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Sly <hikertrash at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] "buy-as-you-go" strategy and leaving with the pack
To: "Julian Plamann" <julian at amity.be>
Cc: "PCT MailingList" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 8:04 AM

You'll want to send a package from home to Mt Laguna and Warner
Springs. After that it's Idyllwild, Big Bear, Wrightwood, Aqua Dulce
(shuttle to store) and Mojave before KM. All those towns have larger
stores which should have pleny of food..

Sly

Julian Plamann wrote:
> So I had been planning on beginning the trail this year May 6th because I
> like to hike long days and didn't want to hit KM before mid-June, but now
> looking at the snowpack this year, it seems like I won't have a problem 
> with
> too much snow even if leaving during the week of the kickoff. This is
> exciting news for me because I really wanted to get a chance to meet past
> and present hikers. However, I'm wondering if I do leave right with the 
> main
> pack, how much is my "buy-as-you-go" strategy going to be screwed up? Am I
> likely to find lots of ravaged, empty store shelves, burned-out shells of
> buildings and town-folk shuffling the streets in a semi-conscious daze? I
> had hoped to only send a single maildrop to Kennedy Meadows or somewhere
> near there and maybe only send one or two bounces ahead during the rest of
> the trail. Still possible while hiking with the pack? I'm vegetarian if 
> that
> makes any difference, but don't mind being occasionally fueled by Nutty 
> Bars
> and Snickers when necessary.
> Thanks!
> Julian
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