[pct-l] The Thruhike Maildrop Shoppinglist

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Deb,

My logistics and communications manager is my wife.  She keeps everything at
home organized, receives my approximately-weekly phone calls, and mails my
resupply boxes to those locations where I do not buy locally.
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=165752

She keeps several check-lists of:  1) Items to put in each box, 2)
Possibilities for the desert, 3) Possibilities for the Sierras to Kennedy
Meadows, 4) Possibilities for the summer through N. California and Oregon,
and, 5) Possibilities for rainy Washington.

A gross list, in alphabetical order, is copied below just to illustrate the
kinds of things considered.  Some of those things I always carry, some I
never carry, and other things – maybe, at one time or another.

If you have any questions, let me know.  I expect your son will have the
time of his life.

Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09

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AAA batteries

Aluminum foil pot windscreen

Antibiotic ointment

Band-Aids

Baskets for poles

Bear ‘can

Bear-box location list

Camera battery exchange

Canada Immigration entry permit

Cat food can stove

Chaps, SilNylon

ChapStick

Clorox bleach for water purification.

Compass upgrade

Condiments, small quantities

Cook pot

Crampon hardware

Data book pages

DEET

Dental floss

Duct tape, small rolls

Mailing envelope

Foot powder

Fuel bottle

Gaiter under-strings

Guidebook pages

Headnet

Ice axe

Instep crampons

Kleenex  packets or toilet paper

Long sleeve tee-shirt

Long tights

Medium socks

Moleskin

Mosquito bar

Notebook, small

NSAID

Food, cold or cookable

Nut driver

Passport

Pencil, short

Photo memory exchange

Plastic trash bags

Platy water sack

Pole tethers

Poncho, Bilgy Parcho

Pot stand

Purell liquid

Purell wipes

Rain hat, GoreTex

Road map sections

Salve/lotion

SealSkinz gloves

SealSkinz socks

Sharpie pen

Sheetmetal screws

Shoe strings

Sleeping bag, medium

Sleeping pad, thicker

Sleeping pad, replacement

So. Cal. Water Report print

Soap, liquid

Socks

Solid fuel tablets

Spoon, Lexan

Stove & pot set

Sun block

Sun glasses


Tarp, large, gray


Thicker gloves


Vitamins, 1 set per day


Warmer shirt


Windbreaker, larger



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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:15 PM, <debdickason at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As the mom of a thru hiker who leaves Seattle to start this journey May
> 5th, I would also appreciate this sort of information. At 24 he leaves
> feeling confident and prepared as any young man might. As his mother and
> observing support staff, I'm not feeling as prepared!
>
> Any lists or clues to help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Deb
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karel Jordaan <karel_jordaan at yahoo.com.au>
> Sender: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:15:39
> To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] The Thruhike Maildrop Shoppinglist
>
> Hi All,
>
> Depending on your planning of logistics for mail drops,you may have ended
> up with a spreadsheet of what to put in which mail drop container, and the
> destination post office along the trail. (eg. shoes, ice axe, bear canister)
>
> For a PCT  thuhike south to north, at the earliest start of the thruhike
> season.
>
> Lots of advice on this list may have assisted you in your determination,
> and I assume that through the years that a pretty much standard,
> standard has been followed.
>
> I should be very pleased if some would be willing to share the generics and
> suggeted locations of their mail drops.
>
> If a standardised 'shopping list' already exist, please post the link.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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