[pct-l] Food Cache

[yogi]

um........on a thru-hike, the shower comes AFTER the
pizza and beer!!  (eat, shower, eat again)

yogi
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--- Mike Saenz <msaenz at mve-architects.com> wrote:

> I swear I can remember a post from a few years back
> where some guy
> cached his food along the trail (burying it in the
> dirt and covering it
> with rocks, I believe) and when time came when he
> reached his spots,
> animals had dug it up and left a mess of trash he
> needed to clean up
> before he moved on. I think each cache was met in
> the same condition.
> 
> Last I saw, there were notices in the bear boxes
> along the PCT/JMT
> between Vidette and Woods Crossing explicitly
> prohibiting caching food
> in them. It's not nice to piss off a Ranger...
> 
> Hitch in and get a cold beer, a hot shower, a pizza
> and meet up with
> other hikers (perhaps not, but maybe, in that
> order).
> 
> Michael  Saenz
> Associate Partner
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net
> [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On Behalf Of
> Pea Hicks
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:16 PM
> To: Jeffrey Olson
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Cache
> 
> 
> 
> Jeffrey Olson wrote:
> 
> > There are a bunch of bear boxes at the Onion
> Valley Parking lot and
> the 
> > signs insist you use the bear boxes rather than
> leave food in cars -
> so 
> > there's another cache spot. 
> 
> for the sake of yourself and your fellow hikers, i
> would strongly advise
> 
> you not to use bear boxes for caching food, as
> that's NOT what they're 
> for. bear boxes are exclusively for the use of
> whoever is camping in the
> 
> immediate area. if lots of hikers started using bear
> boxes to cache 
> food, there would be no room in the boxes for the
> folks who actually 
> need to use them for their intended purpose.
> 
> at the woods creek camp north of rae lakes last
> year, there was a note 
> from the rangers in the bear box, addressed to some
> folks who had cached
> 
> their food there. the note reprimanded them for
> doing so, and said that 
> they could find their food waiting for them at the
> rae lakes ranger 
> station, which means they had to backtrack several
> miles (and climb 
> quite a bit) in order to claim their food from the
> rangers, who probably
> 
> also read them the riot act when they got there.
> 
> 
> girlscout
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