mojamba
03-29-2020, 09:23
Hi, I am new here so hopefully this post is OK and in the right sub-forum. I am a 2019 thru-hiker and I have put together a Google spreadsheet with various information and tools that I hope will help make planning an Appalachian Trail thru-hike easier. There's a lot to it, so check it out for yourselves, but the key features include:
A customizable food resupply shopping list that will calculate things like: total and daily calories, calories by type of meal, estimated total food weight, and the percentages of carbs, fat and protein. You can specify the number of meals/days you need to resupply and your preferred number of calories and nutritional balance and see how your shopping list compares.
A fairly complete list of points of interest along the trail that can be filtered.
The ability to select mail drop locations from the POI sheet and automatically generate mailing list labels for them.
Some extra information that I found here and there during my research, some of which originated on WhiteBlaze.
This is a project I started before my thru-hike last year but wasn't able to finish in time but I finally found some time recently. You may ask why do this at all when we already have AWOL and Guthook. I used both of those and would highly recommend them to anyone. My goal is not to replace those. But, for planning purposes, I feel like what I have put together can be of some value. Hopefully you all will agree but I'd love any feedback you have about it.
It's a Google sheet so you can make a copy and use it online. Find it at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uw0VU7b9jMVYiUmiWdlVyww-xFCN8KAwvZwplft4-mA/edit?usp=sharing
A customizable food resupply shopping list that will calculate things like: total and daily calories, calories by type of meal, estimated total food weight, and the percentages of carbs, fat and protein. You can specify the number of meals/days you need to resupply and your preferred number of calories and nutritional balance and see how your shopping list compares.
A fairly complete list of points of interest along the trail that can be filtered.
The ability to select mail drop locations from the POI sheet and automatically generate mailing list labels for them.
Some extra information that I found here and there during my research, some of which originated on WhiteBlaze.
This is a project I started before my thru-hike last year but wasn't able to finish in time but I finally found some time recently. You may ask why do this at all when we already have AWOL and Guthook. I used both of those and would highly recommend them to anyone. My goal is not to replace those. But, for planning purposes, I feel like what I have put together can be of some value. Hopefully you all will agree but I'd love any feedback you have about it.
It's a Google sheet so you can make a copy and use it online. Find it at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uw0VU7b9jMVYiUmiWdlVyww-xFCN8KAwvZwplft4-mA/edit?usp=sharing