If you have been tracking our location and want to send us anything here are the addresses where we will be able to pick up mail. Just make sure to send it far enough ahead where we won't miss it but the post office will probably only hold it for about 2 weeks also. Anyways here are the addresses. Just put our names ahead of the C/O line and it should get to us.
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Idyllwild, CA 92549
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Big Bear City, CA 92314
C/O The Saufley's
11861 Darling Road
Agua Dulce, CA 91390
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Tehachapi, CA 93561
C/O General Delivery
Kennedy Meadows General Store
96740 Beach Meadow Road
Inyokern, CA 93527
Vermillion Valley Resort
C/O Rancheria Garage
Huntington Lake Road, Lakeshore, CA 93634
C/O General Delivery
Tuolumne Meadows
Yosemite NP, CA 95389
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Echo Lake, CA 95721
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Belden, CA 95915
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Burney, CA 96013
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Seiad Valley, CA 96086
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Ashland, OR 97520
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Crater Lake, OR 97604
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Cascade Locks, OR 97014
C/O Kracker Barrel
48851 US Highway 12
Naches, WA 98937
C/O General Delivery
Post Office
Stehekin, WA 98852
Want to get the emails tracking our location? Sign up to have our weekly tracking report sent to your email. It will include a map and coordinates so you can track us as we're going along the trail.
How to sign up: Leave a comment on this blog and it will save your email (but it won't publish it). Then as soon as the list is updated you should start receiving weekly emails on our location (Don't forget we don't technically leave until the 27th of April...
Thanks to Miss Masog for keeping our blog going and updating our email list while we are gone.
Annual Day Zero Pacific Crest Trail Kick Off...Starting this Thursday the 24th!!! We'll be there! Find out more at: http://pct77.org/adz/
If you're going--we'll see you there...if not we'll let you know how it went!
Here's a little video that shows how to make your own pop-can stove. This is a great idea for saving some space (and weight!) on the trail...enjoy!
Will & I have decided to make some of our own food ahead of time (as well as buy some on the trail). Here's a little picture of what 6 months of food starts to look like.
Check out "Lipsmackin' Backpackin'" for some really great recipes that you can take along with you. The other option is to either make it up as you go or stick with the standard Mountain House or other freeze-dried food options (quite spendy). It's up to you though, only you know your tastes best. Just remember, your favorite trail meal will still get boring so keep mixing up the resupply kits with yummy alternatives.
So we checked out the REI Scratch & Dent Sale in Eugene this last weekend. We got their at 5AM and were about 10th in line. We were hoping for a ton of great deals—and we got quite a few—but not as much as we had hoped.
We did score a good deal on a REI Kilo Plus 0 Sleeping Bag. Regularly $289 we picked it up for $60.
We also picked up an Under Armor shirt for $10 which I’ve never seen on sale so that was quite the find. In addition some rain pants, snow gloves, & a platypus. Still haven’t got my hands on my sleeping bag…but soon I’m sure.
A new Personal Locator Device (PLD) that is subscription based (save the huge upfront costs). This system allows you to send family and friends coordinates throughout your long trek. And for us, keeping in touch with family is going to be very important.
In addition, by being able to track our activity and rate of hiking--it will make it easier for our shipping team to make sure to send out our care packages in time. So if we’re ahead of schedule we can send them our coordinates to let them know they should get on down to the post office.
There are also services you can buy like search and rescue insurance. We’ve found them for about $8/year for 100,000 in coverage. Just something to think about when you’re planning your trek.
Find more out about SPOT at their website: http://www.findmespot.com/ .
The Feds website for the PCT is better than it ever has been. The PCTA.ORG is still the best resource for thru-hikers. But, if you're looking for general info, when to hike sections, etc. the Fed website isn't bad. Check it out: CLICK HERE.
This is the REI Half-Dome Tent. We were going to get the Quarter-Dome...but after waiting in the REI Scratch & Dent Sale line we picked up this one for about an eigth of its original price. So we sacrifice some weight but saved $150.
Before starting to map our hiking calendar we first needed to figure out where we’d be stopping to resupply and our hiking stats. We calculated our hiking stats by timing ourselves on a simulation hike on Mary’s Peak with weighted packs (25lbs for mine and 35lbs for Will).
Below is a list of our chosen 2008 resupply points (of course there are lots of options—these are the ones we narrowed it down to). In addition below that there is a list of our hiking stats (of course they are really my stats since Will can hike much harder and longer than I…so far… ;-):
Est. Resupply Locations:
Idyllwild, CA
Phelan, CA
Hikertown – Lancaster, CA
Kennedy Meadows
Muir Trail Ranch
Tuolumne Meadows, CA
Echo Lake, CA
Belden, CA
Burney Falls State Park
Seiad Valley, CA
Crater Lake, OR
Olallie Lake Resort
Cascade Locks, OR
White Pass
Stehekin, WA
Minimum Daily Duration: 7 hours
Average Daily Duration: 9 hours
Hiking Rate on level terrain: 3.0 mi/hr
Hiking rate when climbing: 850 ft/hr
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