Re: Offer to resupply you at JMT mile 88 (Vermillion) - with a c
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:54 pm
Fishmonger
Thanks for the thought. I'm just too cheap to pay VVR to pick up my mail and bring it to the resort. Maybe I should get over it. Plus I've already done the route up Paradise Valley from Roads End to Woods Creek and would prefer not to do it again (twice on a RT). It would add 30 miles and 3500 ft to what is already a 160 mile - 30,000 feet trip. (Roads End to Woods Creek along Paradise Valley is lovely, but about 15 miles each way and a 3500 ft climb on the way North.) That's why it's attractive for me to start at the VVR end on a RT.
My hope is to find someone else who is either: (1) like me, too cheap to pay VVR to pick up the mailed food or (2), unlike me, who is too much in a hurry to take the ferry over to VVR and back. People who fit that profile (if they are not hiking solo) might find that my offer works for them. So it does not seem unfair to me. I'd be asking them to carry 7 lbs but delivering saving them 14-20 lbs, and without the VVR pickup charge (more weight savings for larger groups).
I'm not sure I wanted to stir up so much of a hornet's nest by this post. However, I loved your long post on a resupply strategy for a up-and-back with kids. Sounds like a great plan. With my two daughters, I could never get either to backpack more than 3-4 days (and in high schol 2-3 was tops). But then they got college, got to backpack with friends, and loved it and appreciated having known how to do it.
I've never heard that comment (don't cache in bear boxes) from rangers. I mark anything I cache with the date after which it is fair game for anyone else, so I don't feel it is an offense against trail etiquette. Particularly not at Woods Creek, where there are two large bear boxes that are usually less than 1/4 full.
John
Thanks for the thought. I'm just too cheap to pay VVR to pick up my mail and bring it to the resort. Maybe I should get over it. Plus I've already done the route up Paradise Valley from Roads End to Woods Creek and would prefer not to do it again (twice on a RT). It would add 30 miles and 3500 ft to what is already a 160 mile - 30,000 feet trip. (Roads End to Woods Creek along Paradise Valley is lovely, but about 15 miles each way and a 3500 ft climb on the way North.) That's why it's attractive for me to start at the VVR end on a RT.
My hope is to find someone else who is either: (1) like me, too cheap to pay VVR to pick up the mailed food or (2), unlike me, who is too much in a hurry to take the ferry over to VVR and back. People who fit that profile (if they are not hiking solo) might find that my offer works for them. So it does not seem unfair to me. I'd be asking them to carry 7 lbs but delivering saving them 14-20 lbs, and without the VVR pickup charge (more weight savings for larger groups).
I'm not sure I wanted to stir up so much of a hornet's nest by this post. However, I loved your long post on a resupply strategy for a up-and-back with kids. Sounds like a great plan. With my two daughters, I could never get either to backpack more than 3-4 days (and in high schol 2-3 was tops). But then they got college, got to backpack with friends, and loved it and appreciated having known how to do it.
I've never heard that comment (don't cache in bear boxes) from rangers. I mark anything I cache with the date after which it is fair game for anyone else, so I don't feel it is an offense against trail etiquette. Particularly not at Woods Creek, where there are two large bear boxes that are usually less than 1/4 full.
John