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Anyone planning on using a bounce box? I know it ties you to specific places/times, but I am contemplating using one.
If you are planning on using one, what all are you thinking of putting in it?
Town clothes, coffee grinder and beans, extra everything, sometimes my tent, etc. ......
Smacky70
07-09-2006, 07:59
I'm still researching, but I'm pretty sure I'll end up using one.
Probably put things like toilet paper, cotton ear buds etc. Plus winter clothes when the time is appropriate.
Used and future sections of maps and guidebooks,:-? batteries, camera stuff, shampoo,:) toenail clippers,:eek: laundry detergent, and any number of things I tend to collect along the way.:o
mweinstone
07-09-2006, 22:09
only little girlymen use them.hows that shades of gray!?
fiddlehead
07-09-2006, 23:26
town clothes, large toothpaste tube (that you can squeeze into the small one you carry), Dehydrated food that you like and made at home, coffee (things you buy easier in larger quanitites but don't need to carry all of), flash drive, memory stick for your camera, extra ziplocks, etc. the list can be big depending on your needs. There's lots of threads on this subject. Search for them and fine out lots. good luck.
There's a bunch of little stuff that I don't want to pack but I would like access to every now and then, so....
I'm currently planning on using one for junk like my cell phone (don't want it on the trail, but I have to pay on my contract anyway, so I might as well call home every other week to let friends know I'm still alive), my glasses, extra set of contacts, a razor, a real hairbrush, and my address book.
town clothes, nail clippers, dremmel, xtra camera stuff, razor, ziplocs, shampoo/soap, etc.
Skidsteer
07-10-2006, 22:07
town clothes, nail clippers, dremmel, xtra camera stuff, razor, ziplocs, shampoo/soap, etc.
Dremel? As in Dremel tool? Please elaborate. I gotta hear this! :sun
Yep, a Dremel tool (sorry, I never could spell). Ed hates having his nails clipped. My sister uses a Dremel for her working dogs' nails, and suggested it. He likes to be vacuumed too, but I'm not putting that in the bounce box!
hikerjohnd
07-10-2006, 23:52
Is ed your dog or husband?
This is 100% serious, by the way.
OK Boston - you owe me a new mouse - I laughed so hard at this comment Pepsi shot out of my nose and all over my desk.
I keep getting this image of some 50 year old guy sitting in front of the post office, Dremel in hand, grinding down his gnarly toenails.
Those that are planning on using bounce boxes - and I am one of those - have you decided which post offices you are going to bounce it too? I am assuming that these would be fairly major trail towns, but which ones?
hammock engineer
07-23-2006, 22:03
What I am going to do is put a copy of all of the post office address into the box. I am going to mail it ahead to Monson (I'll get the spelling right on the package). Heading sobo soon.
A 5 gallon plastic bucket with a good sealable lid makes about as good a bounce box as you can get.
John Scott
07-24-2006, 05:15
The responses so far indicate that the boxes are very useful. I thru hiked in 2000 and didn't use a box once, in part because I live in London, England and the customs procedures would have been too much. In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't because they seem such a terrible hassle - hiking into towns, hanging around waiting for post offices to open, constantly repacking. Some folks think the effort is worth it. But you can do the AT without them - and indeed without mailing food - and it's a whole lot more enjoyable.
Blissful
08-11-2006, 13:01
Can someone give a possible list as to where you should send your bounce box, starting NOBO? I leave March 1st. (someone asked this earlier but it wasn't answered) I was having a dream last night about organizing a bounce box, ha ha, so thought I'd better ask
Also, what do you then put in mail drops? I figure some of the meds I take (presciption, glucosomine, etc) maybe food I can't get, etc. or can that just go in the bounce box too?
The Old Fhart
08-11-2006, 13:25
Blissful, try this article. (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7754)
soulrebel
08-11-2006, 15:17
waste of money...unless it's full of porno...
mweinstone
08-11-2006, 17:23
dude,.....DUDE,....dude!!!!! DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT SEND A 5 GAL PLASTIC BUCKET THRU THE MAIL!!!!!!!
use some common sense. have some respect. do you have any idea what that would initiate.?
mailroom to 911 operater: 911 operater 2674 what is the nature of your emergency?
we have a suspisious package here at 30 th street post office in the loading dock ares.
what does the package look like sir?
its a five gallon plastic bucket like the kind used for chemicals or paint and its addressed to general delivery, please hold for AT HIKER!
sir i want you to stay as far away from the bucket as possable were sendind the bomb squad.
later that evening a knock on the door of the fiddler.
knock,knock,....yes hellow can i help you officers?
you the fiddler?
Blissful
08-12-2006, 21:31
Blissful, try this article. (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7754)
Thanks a bunch!
mweinstone
08-12-2006, 21:41
if thats not funny we wouldnt like each other.your right of course the bucket would be fine but in this age of mascara bombs and lip gloss detonaters,...its weird to have to worry about crossing any of these new lines there drawing all over the planet.one of my favorite lessons in school was when a teacher pointed out that the political boundrys marked in cheerfull colors on our maps are not visible from space.
Jack Tarlin
08-12-2006, 21:44
Blissful--
I plan on updating that article sometime this fall/winter, but nearly all of it is still accurate. If you have any questions or problems with your maildrop plans, feel free to run 'em by me.
Twofiddy
09-01-2006, 12:26
You guys have got to realize something.
The small fortune that you are going to spend on postage could go a long way towards something else to make your hike much more enjoyable.
BOUNCE BOX = WASTE OF TIME.
See my post on how to use the postal service and UPS in an efficient manner.
DO NOT SEND A 5 GAL PLASTIC BUCKET THRU THE MAIL!!!!!!!
use some common sense. have some respect. do you have any idea what that would initiate.?
I wouldn't use one because they're heavy and only pay the PO what I have to but lots of people use them on the trails out west. One resort that accepts mail drops insists, as they're pretty much mouse proof.
You guys have got to realize something.
You should realize everyone is different.;)
The small fortune that you are going to spend on postage could go a long way towards something else to make your hike much more enjoyable.
50$ isn't a small fortune to some folks. Mail drops from across the country are one thing. Sending some comforts and pounds a couple hundred miles or so up trail is another.:)
BOUNCE BOX = WASTE OF TIME.
To you maybe.:rolleyes:
See my post on how to use the postal service and UPS in an efficient manner.
Thanks, I will. Sorry if this is confusing. I'm not sure how to Keep um separated.:eek:
Thanks, I will. Sorry if this is confusing. I'm not sure how to Keep um separated.:eek:
Had me going Nean.
You can use the quote function and then put [/quote] at the end of the line you want to quote. Then highlight the next line you want to quote and hit the quote looking thing next to the mountain and before the #. For the last line add [quote] in the beginning since the end quote is alreay there.
hit the quote looking thing next to the mountain and before the #
This is where I lost you.:confused: Maybe I'll experiment.:D Thanks Sly.;)
stumpknocker
09-02-2006, 06:28
This is where I lost you.:confused: Maybe I'll experiment.:D Thanks Sly.;)
Hey Nean, go back to post #29 and hit the quote icon in the lower right corner of that post.
When the page appears to let you respond to that post, look just above the "x" in experiment that's in the quote you're responding to.
That's the box I believe Sly is talking about that's between the mountain and the #.......but then, maybe you two are just talking about one time you walked together and you ditched Sly on a mountain.
Sorry........it's early......I'm going to go for a walk today. :)
Blissful
09-02-2006, 09:11
You guys have got to realize something.
The small fortune that you are going to spend on postage could go a long way towards something else to make your hike much more enjoyable.
BOUNCE BOX = WASTE OF TIME.
See my post on how to use the postal service and UPS in an efficient manner.
What post? URL?
I have already thought of a few things that will make my town experiences more enjoyable by having a bounce box. Less money wasted as well in stores when buying quantities of items one doesn't need, from what I can see. I plan to budget for it.
Blissful
09-02-2006, 09:12
Whoops, didn't see there was a whole other thread on this. :) Will check it out.
Hey Nean, go back to post #29 and hit the quote icon in the lower right corner of that post.
When the page appears to let you respond to that post, look just above the "x" in experiment that's in the quote you're responding to.
That's the box I believe Sly is talking about that's between the mountain and the #.......
Sorry........it's early......I'm going to go for a walk today. :)
Yeah that's it.