[pct-l] Resupply Prep

[radpin at gmail.com (Eric)]

While I know it's just barely fall, I think these logistics are worth
working out right around now. I understand the two models of resupply.
One where everything is mailed ahead, and the other where everything
is bought along the way. I would imagine most people do a hybrid of
both, and I'll be in that group.

I like organic and natural food over regular supermarket stuff, (think
Trader Joes, if any of you know of them), but in a pinch I'll eat what
I can get my hands on and be happy about it. Also I have no problems
eating the same stuff all the time. At home I do it, when I travel I
do it, when I was in the military I did it, and backpacking I've
always done it. I can seriously eat the exact same thing for a month,
breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and be quite content.

So I was planning on sending boxes, every 100 miles or so to post
offices along the route (the closer the better), with the following
contents:

- qtips
- canned fruit
- enough dinner to get to the next place
- enough lunch to get to the next place
- enough breakfast to get to the next place
- white gas
- new section from book if applicable

Once I have all the places that I'll be mailing to, I'm going to make
a box for each, leave it open, and put the stuff in it I need to. My
girlfriend will be charged with mailing them out when they're supposed
to be mailed (or not mailed, if I don't need them), and changing any
contents. In keeping with the "100 mile" concept, which I know wont
work all the time, because there are places spaced out farther than
that on the trail, I would call or send a letter stating when I needed
the next packet sent out.

This gives me a decent amount of flexibility I think, and if there's a
box with $10 of groceries in it and not much else (especially not the
map section), I don't think I would mind abandoning it at a post
office somewhere if other plans were better.

Ideas / thoughts / suggestions?

Again, I'm quite serious that I can eat the same things all the time.
I actualy enjoy it a lot more than food diversity. As long as I can
get a burger every few weeks, I'm all set.

Eric



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