[at-l] Bunce Box Ideas

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The bounce box routine worked perfectly for me.  It was great way to push along extra food, additional contact solution, small gear items like an extra camp spoon, nail clippers, journal notebooks as well as town toiletries.  I used it once to experiment with doing without a stove by bouncing my stove up one town stop.  I put my Manhattan-black polypro undies in there to be assured of getting to them in a relative hurry when the weather turned nasty or when I needed to make a fashion statement.  I kept my handgun, cellphone and bag of pot in there too.

Bouncing Balls



On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:26:07 -0500 Mara Factor <m_factor@hotmail.com> wrote:

Unless you have some obvious supplies that you want to bounce along the 
trail, there's no need to "plan" a bounce box.  If at some point you have 
something with you that you don't want to carry but are not yet ready to 
send home, then bounce it to yourself up the trail.  Priority mail costs 
just a bit more than regular boxes and the post offices usually have a handy 
supply of appropriately sized priority mail boxes.

As was said previously, with Priority mail, if you decide you don't want to 
open your bounce box, you can just forward it to yourself further up the 
trail (or at home).  This can be useful if you have some gear that you think 
you can do without.  Bounce it to yourself and if you don't need it by the 
time you catch up with your bounce box, then just have it forwarded home at 
no additional cost to you.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99

>From: jtwilkins@comcast.net
>Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:45:21 -0500
>
>I'm kicking around a idea of using a bounce box or not on the trip. ...

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