[pct-l] best places to buy your own food:

[jason moores]

Shroomer!

I am currently working in Alta, UT with Chainsaw who stopped off to work at VVR for two months last summer(there are 4 2010 hikers working here and we've met two more in the Salt Lake area, small world).

I take your point about the cost at VVR. We pulled into Edison Lake for an unplanned zero and ended up there for 1.5. We ate every meal in the restaurant and snacked like mad out of the store. I made a mental note every time that I added something to the tab and then kept adding. The food was great, the staff a hoot and Jim a gracious host. Molasses and I even talked about filling out applications for 2011.

I'll be on a tighter budget this year and hadn't planned on going into VVR this summer, but I'm thinking of swapping a zero in Mammoth for one at VVR. In the end I would probably spend more in Mammoth and I would get more rest at VVR. (I still feel that the prices at the store were steep, regardless of the cost to transport it to the lodge. Just my opinion.)

Jackass


> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:00:13 -0800
> From: baidarker at gmail.com
> To: paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] best places to buy your own food:
> 
> Part of the reason for stopping at VVR is simply the experience of VVR.  We
> had a ball there and after the deep snows of the weeks prior, it was a
> welcome zero in a gorgeous setting with good food, beer and great folks
> working there.  It gets pricey only because there is a tendency to eat and
> drink more than you realize.  Several of the thrus ended up staying to work
> there when we passed through.  But all of us felt very good about the place.
> 
> Shroomer
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