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Re: [at-l] Question about Mail Drops

I don't suppose that you might be persuaded to  send this info (recipes,
spread sheet, etc) to the rest of us.  I sounds like a _really_ useful
bit.

Ted Kell
KC5CUW
Near the Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas
<tedkell@juno.com> -or- <tkell@nyx.net>

On Fri, 29 May 1998 09:50:54 -0400 Tim Hewitt <thewitt@fairchildsemi.com>
writes:
>I have given this lots of thought, read journals, books, taken advice, 
>and
>here is my current plan for next year.
>
>I have been drying food for 14 different dinner combinations. Most of 
>these
>are tried and true with me, but a few are still in the trial stages 
>and will
>be accepted or rejected this season. Most are Noodle or Rice dinners,
>supplimented by different dried veggies and dried shredded meats - 
>though
>there are some other meals as well - including burritoes (hmmm, hmmm, 
>hmmm).
>
>I have a tentative maildrop plan, in a spreadsheet, with the number of 
>days
>and meal types in each drop location calcualted. If I change dates - 
>compress
>or extend as well as move up or back - the number of meals in a box 
>changes.
>This is mostly based on Wingfoot's planning book.  I am still working 
>out all
>the actual drop points and calculating miles between drops based on 
>the
>guidebooks and journal entries of others. This is a facinating study 
>in itself!
>
>My support team - wife and kids - are going to mail my boxes to me two 
>weeks
>before my expected arrival date. They will be updating my chart as my 
>schedule
>changes, so they will know reasonably well where I am and if I still 
>need four
>dinners, four lunches, and three breakfasts in a particular box.
>
>They have the option of using any of my prepackaged meal choices to 
>fill my
>box. They get to choose if I get tuna noodle cassarole every night for 
>a week
>- but they have promised to keep mixing things up :).
>
>This keeps them all active in my hike - let's them add any surprises - 
>art
>work, letters, pictures, etc. In my supply plan, there are also things 
>like
>toilet paper, toothpaste, batteries, film, etc that get added after so 
>many days.
>
>I have not decided to keep a bump-box ahead of me at this time, but it 
>would
>be easy enough to do that enroute if it looks interesting then.
>
>If something in my food selection absolutely falls out of favor, I 
>will change
>it. Since all the food I am taking is well tested by me in camping 
>conditions,
>I don't think I'm at risk here, but you never know.  The food that I 
>have
>dried ahead will not go to waste with all the camping/backpacking that 
>I and
>my family/scouts do...
>
>I also am packaging nearly everything into single serving sizes so 
>there are
>no odors in my food pack - no leftovers in a ziplock. I'm using the 
>vacuum
>seal bags and my current rule (for the past two years successfully) 
>has been
>"once you open it, you eat it." This almost eliminates any food odors 
>in your
>pack and makes it less attractuve to rodents. Things like Gorp and 
>Jerky are
>packaged into "single-day" packages and get eaten in their entirety 
>(most of
>the time).
>
>I'm sure there are lots of other methods that work fine for others, 
>and this
>is only my latest incarnation.  I have no desire to shop in the little 
>(or
>even bog) grocery stores along the way. I may make an exception and 
>add some
>fresh fruit for the first day or two our of town, but I am not 
>requiring any
>shopping at this time.  I also don't plan to stay in many towns 
>overnight if I
>can help it.  My need for a hot shower and a day off will be minimal - 
>at
>least after the first month.
>
>-Paddler (GA>ME 99                          yes only 290 days left :)
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