Daily food schedule question

Duke(ster) indicated early-on that we will each plan and carry our own breakfast, lunch, & snacks with a group menu to be developed for the evening meals.

A couple of questions for the group to expedite personal planning:

1. Will plan time to cook at each meal or plan to eat on the run? Breakfast (coffee)? Lunch? Dinner? What does the group prefer to do?

2. I think a group meal for eight each evening will be hard to accomplish and maybe cooking in pairs will work better. What does the group think?

3. What is the plan for food items? The finest of steaks and chops? Freezer bag cooking meals? Dehydrated (Mountain House, etc.) meals? MREs? Bear steaks provided by Josh the hunter and his bowie knife? Anyone have some good ideas?

Thanks

Rob

Blisters and Bliss

There is a bunch of interesting stuff about the WCT available at the link below.

http://members.shaw.ca/blistersbliss/

This appears to be some of the content from "Blisters and Bliss", the book referenced here, and it includes a bunch of little trail anecdotes. The pictures are good, too.

Matt

Travel Schedule - Update and Confirmation

Gentlemen - We are GO! for hiking the West Coast Trail, north to south, in July.

Thanks to Graham we have confirmed permits to hike beginning the afternoon of July 24, following the mandatory 1 PM Park Ranger briefing at the Banfield trailhead.

Thanks to Matt we have reservations on the July 24 water shuttle from Pt. Renfrew north to Banfield. This boat leaves Pt. Renfrew at 6:30 AM and gets us into Banfield about 10:30 AM, subject to how many Orca whales we slow down to watch.

It will take most all of Wednesday July 23 to pack up and get through customs and go from Seattle to Pt. Renfrew. (Matt is researching the options - details forthcoming.) Based on prelim costs and ferry schedules, my guess is we will travel in 2 cars by land and ferry to Victoria, BC, and then drive to Pt. Renfrew. We will overnight in Pt. Renfrew.

So that means men travelling from Atlanta and New Mexico need to arrive in Seattle no later than the evening of Tuesday, July 22. Airport pick-up, hot showers, and a warm bunk will be provided.

Dukester

Reservation

After 15 minutes of hitting redial and another 20 minutes on hold, I was able to get through. We now have a reservation for eight people from the Bamfield/Pachena trailhead for July 24. Reservation number 2301955.

I will be getting an e-mail with more information, I will post that when I get it.