I am working on my fail-proof strategy to get to Katahdin, and so I packed my resupply boxes as exciting care package gifts from me to ‘future me’. It’s important to note that hikers who have special dietary restrictions or medical conditions really benefited from sending 10-20 packages to support their unique circumstances and to keep marching forward. The operating inconsistencies were an inconvenience for most thru hikers, who typically had to wait an extra day to get their things. Two common misgivings from hikers around shipping boxes were: 1) high shipping costs and 2) too much time wasted waiting to get the mail as some USPS offices maintained fairly limited operating hours in addition to the typical holiday and weekend closures. That’s still nearly 20% of all my food supplies-an estimated 25 days of on-trail provisions. A quantity of five was somewhere in between. In my research, hikers either sent too many boxes (10+) or didn’t send enough (no boxes). Shipping more than five just seemed like overkill. But after reading up on other hikers’ long-distance strategies, I decided to send the ‘future me’ just five boxes-shipping them at 500-mile intervals (give or take 50-60 miles) or approximately once per month.
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