I was so happy today was a day off. My JD-contributed cold has hit full force. Sore throat is gone but my head has been infested with pernicious snot. I slept in, then I was slack. Then I ate and was slack again. It's a rough life.
I'm sneezing so much that I have boxes of tissues scattered around the house. That way I have one within reach any time a sneeze hits. I'm going to have to empty trash tomorrow because the little trash cans are overflowing with used tissues. Gross.
I received my 2011 A.T. Guide yesterday. Now I'm attempting to plan my two longish hikes this year. The mileage doesn't work out neatly for either one. The first hike of 6 days (plus two more in town) won't have a resupply in it. The second hike of 21 days has no good resupply options. I'll have to mail myself resupply. Maybe more than one. I might have to have somebody bring me a maildrop into the 100 mile wilderness. I don't have a good feeling for how fast I'll be going, but even averaging 10 miles a day that'd be 10 days of food. That's a lot of food to carry!
In theory White House Landing has resupply, but I looked on their website and it looks kind of skimpy. When more time has passed, I'm sure of my start date, etc, I'll probably call to arrange a drop somewhere. Oy. It's so much easier when there are towns and groceries.
Along those lines, I went crazy and ordered a "7 Day Gourmet Meal Kit" from Amazon. It's 25 freeze dried or easily packaged meals. I have a fair amount of hiking planned this year so I hope they'll all get used. Maybe not all at once - I can carry in a bit of fresh food for the start of a trip and use the freeze dried stuff for later, maybe. I figure it will help reduce some of the headache of planning a trip when I can just reach into the bag and pull out three dinners ready to go.
Certainly my little overnight trips could be almost entirely unplanned if I had a stock of those freeze dried suckers on hand. I could leave my pack almost ready to go! All I'd need to do is add water and a few snacks available at most gas stations, and I'd be done.
Does this sound like a recipe for disaster to you, or is it just me?
At least there should be good stories to tell.
Contact boarstone (she is on whiteblaze). She does food drops in the 100 mile wilderness. I think it was around Jo Mary Lake road. She might be in the guidebooks as well. I don't have mine handy to check.
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