[pct-l] Our Resupply strategy

[Kevin Cook]

I'm doing the same thing as you for food. In my "days of food" column, I am
always adding 1 extra. It's an old backpacking habit I've had for too long.
I always carry that extra day in case something happens and I'm moving
slower. That's never happened. In fact, I nearly always finish my hikes too
soon and walk out with 2-3 days food :p. As I start to build up a backlog of
food, I will just bounce some ahead and have my wife take some out of a
future box, or I'll just toss it into the hiker box. I'm not worried about
using it up. Since I'm going to be so dependant on the PO, I anticipate
times I'll have to stall so as not to arrive on a Sunday. Rather than taking
a zero in town, I'll probably hang out by a pretty stream and graze all day.
;)

Yes, I'm using the info in Yogi's guide for where I can get fuel. I'm using
an alcohol stove, so mostly I'll be after Heet. I'll probably mail some
alcohol to the places Yogi says there is no fuel. I realize she only listed
places that were reliable. The reality is I can probably get fuel
everywhere.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> exactly,  Column E is "box for X miles" and column F is "box for X days"
> ... obviously we start slow like 11 miles a day,  and work up to 22 before
> hitting KM and dropping back to 15.  we made it purposefully easy to beat
> our goals, so we will have more food instead of less most likely.
>
> some places a box is a physical box,  other places it's boxing up food from
> a grocery store on sight.  we'd love to do mroe buy as we go's,  but were
> dissapointed with the gas stations food we saw last year.
>
> nice to hear others have similar resupply strat.
>
> for fuel availability,  did you get the info. from yogi's guide?
>
> ~Paul
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Kevin Cook <hikelite at gmail.com>
> *To:* Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* pct-l at backcountry.net
> *Sent:* Mon, February 14, 2011 1:37:05 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [pct-l] Our Resupply strategy
>
> Thanks for sharing Outpost.
>
> So if column G says buy, does column F indicate how many days you're
> buying? I think it does, but i want to confirm. I'm including the whole list
> in case anyone else has the same question.
>
> Your spreadsheet looks shockingly similar to mine! ;)
> I'm not doing any sections cold, and I don't have a "days since start"
> column. I do have additional columns to indicate if there are fuel, showers,
> or laundry available, and whether to use UPS vs USPS.
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> the days are messed up because in many places we are going 3 days and
>> sending 4,
>> etc.  but here is our general resupply strat.  also many places we count
>> on ten
>> mile days (which we typically had done by noon previously).
>>
>> cold = stoveless.  hot = stoves etc.
>>
>> input is welcome,
>>
>>
>>
>> http://docs.google.com/demo/edit?id=scAD3BQnr3V4re_BumVcc4Mzl&hl=en&dt=spreadsheet#spreadsheet
>>
>>
>>
>> ~Outpost and Echo
>>
>>
>>
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