[pct-l] Thru-Hiking On A Budget

[Eric]

John,

I think the $500 figure is close.  It would include a lot of yogi-ing,
raiding hiker boxes, meals from trail angels, no splurging in town, and
heavier gear.  Obviously you spent quite a bit on some SUL gear and you'll
be eating quite healthily and with variation on the trail.  With $500 most
of the meals would be beans + some carbs.  I prefer to spend the money and
get a bit more comfort out of the trip. My budget it pretty close to yours.
 Thankfully, for my next thru-hike, I'll have all the gear! (If it lasts...)
:)

Regards,
Eric

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:51 PM, John Abela
<pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, guess I pretty much blow this whole $500 trip out of the
> water... only going the wrong way lol.
>
> $2750 for all of my gear (includes desert, sierra, and pnw setups) -
> not counting replacement items along the way.
>
> Base pack weight of 3.9 pounds for pre KM
> Base pack weight of 6.2 pounds for KM-OR (because I am a cold woosie)
> Base pack weight of 4.6 pounds for OR-end
>
> At least, that is the plan. the PNW might catch me by surprise and I
> can either add cold weather cloths or go tarp-only and ditch cloths if
> the weather is kind to us.
> Link for my gear is at: http://www.redwoodoutdoors.com/
>
> I am planning $2500 for food (trail+town) for 150 days. [suspect this
> to be way high but with all the prices going up on just about
> everything here recently, trying to plan for inflation]
>
> I am hoping to have bounce box budget of no more than $250 (totally
> unknown factor for me at this point... anybody out there who has gone
> SUL have knowledge of this?)
>
> Plan to carry around $200 in cash for towns/angels/rides/emergency/etc.
>
> Transportation to/from will be covered by family (some love in
> Victorville and some live in Aberdeen, works out for me :-D)
>
>
> Clearly those who do the PCT for under $500 for gear, food,
> resupplies, transportation, have one-up on me. Huge props to anybody
> out there that can accomplish the PCT at $500 total bucks or less - I
> mean that!!
>
> John
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