[pct-l] Resupply Prep

[CWillett at pierce.ctc.edu (Chris Willett)]

Depending on where you live, this might be a really expensive proposition.  For example, from Illinois it cost me about $20 to send a resupply box to Warner Springs.  If you average 26 drops (one per 100 miles), and you live east of the Rockies, maildrops will really add up.

Note that in Ashland, OR there is a fancy natural foods coop with lots of overpriced, undercaloric foods, mostly organic.  When you get to Ashland, you can buy food there to send out to Oregon, and perhaps even Washington, depending on how fast you move.  That would save you some money on postage, but the food cost would be higher.  

Agua Dulce is right on the edge of the LA megaplex, and with the Saufleys around, you will probably be able to get to a place like Trader Joes.  Buy food there, and for Mojave and Kennedy Meadows and VVR.

Suge

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Christopher Willett
cwillett@pierce.ctc.edu
Pierce College
9401 Farwest Drive SW.
Lakewood, WA. 98498-1999

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> From: 	pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net on behalf of Eric
> Reply To: 	Eric
> Sent: 	Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:55 AM
> To: 	pct-l
> Subject: 	[pct-l] Resupply Prep
> 
>  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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