Is mid-June too Early for the Hundred-Mile Wilderness?
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Yea I wouldn't trust or be ok with somebody leaving my food in a bucket covered by a tarp for 5 minutes. If a locking box isn't an option I would see about actually meeting someone there, even if it means getting there early and waiting to make sure I don't miss it. You would have enough cell coverage to be able to contact within a day or 2 of when you would get to the drop location for timing. I would also rather walk a few miles off trail to get the resupply then having it sit in a bucket. This is really a thing they do?
Yes. Shaws meets hikers at a road crossing, AT Lodge (now AT Hostel and Outfitters) has a cache site. Have never heard of any problems.
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"[ATers] represent three percent of our use and about twenty percent of our effort," retired Baxter Park Director Jensen Bissell.