So on your thru hike, you come into town to resupply and find a box from friends or family... What are some of the best things you'd want to find in your care package?
So on your thru hike, you come into town to resupply and find a box from friends or family... What are some of the best things you'd want to find in your care package?
"Your comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there."
Whiteblaze terms-of-service prevent me from answering this question honestly.
Money!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be a horde of stuff some useful some not. A good opportunity for a time-delayed, long-distance joke.
See ya when I get there.
New socks, trail runners, clean new Smartwool T shirt, inspirational note/pic, Belgian cookies, Starbucks Via(in winter), Swiss or German chocolate, and a pic of folks back home with a brief note about how they are embracing life to the fullest.
Or homemade Oatmeal raisin cookies
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Moon Pies....
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
Starbucks Via
HST/JMT August 2016
TMB/Alps Sept 2015
PCT Mile 0-857 - Apr/May 2015
Foothills Trail Feb 2015
Colorado Trail Aug 2014
AT: Rockfish Gap to Boiling Springs 2014
John Muir Trail Aug/Sept 2013
More Starbucks Via... and hard candies (Atomic Fireballs).
Whatever ya wanna send me..... And cash.
Me: Ricky
Husky: Jack
Skeeter-Beeter Pro Hammock.
From Dalton, Georgia (65 mi above Altanta, 15mi south of Chattanooga)
Jelly Belly jellie beans
Fear ridges that are depicted as flat lines on a profile map.
New Socks, Batteries, T-Shirt, Trail Runners , and how about an complete food drop with 5 days of food, Breakfast, Lunches, Dinners and snacks and some Home made Banana Nut Bread, AT Post Cards ( you know the Been there Done that ones ) i can send to Family members from the trail, Snickers Bars, Honey Buns, But forget about MONEY a responsible thru-hiker should have plenty of that.
Starbucks ICED Via. Trust me.
Dr Bronner's Peppermint Soap and scrub brush. Sometimes, if I had to choose I'd opt for a hot shower rather than sex. The sex comes after the hot shower when I smell all pepperminty and feel invigorated. Women like that peppermint smell.
Anything home baked with lots of peanut butter, rice crispie treats, money cards to use at restaurants after the hike(or maybe even during), flavored crackers, and too many other things to mention.
Peanut Butter Cookies, gift cards, socks, Mtn House type entres(any brand), Chocolate, Jerky, single serving Nescafe tubes, bags of potato chips, letters and photos, etc.
"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go, and look behind the Ranges. Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you . . . Go!" (Rudyard Kipling)
From SunnyWalker, SOBO CDT hiker starting June 2014.
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