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.

Ropes

Well,since we need 50 feet of rope per each two hikers and I didn't have a rope I just bought 50M of used 11mm climbing rope on E-bay.

I think I'll cut it up into 3 pieces. Then we'll need only one more.

RWV

Reservation and Hike Fees

On May 1 I will be making our reservation for the hike. At that time I will have to pay the fees for the hike. To collect the fees from each you, I think it is best if you were to send me a check. The total amount is $182 (see this post for reference). My address:

Graham Ford
4117 46th Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98116

P.S. I know my bank allows me to do online bill pay directly to a person using name, address, and phone number. Please e-mail me directly if you would like my phone number.

Greetings from New Mexico

Greetings,

I figured I'd better weigh in on this forthcoming adventure in that I've been the recipient of an onslaught of emails over the past several weeks without any acknowledgement on my part. As indicated by Bill, we'll be joined by George, a friend of mine here in Las Cruces, NM. His email is: jardengeor@zianet.com. I'll get him information on the blog tomorrow. At 72, George will be the senior member of the group, although he just completed the Bataan Death March memoriam last Sunday - a 26 mile walk. I'm 62 and a retired university professor. George is a still practicing physician in town, so we'll have our own team doctor on the trip. For Bill and I, this will be our fourth expedition together - the first a 5 day backpack trip to Mt. Marcy, NY, ~1962; the second a 10 day canoe trip to the NY Fulton Chain of Lakes, ~1963, and the third a 10 day sea kyacking trip to Prince William Sound in Alaska, 2002. Of course, Bill and I shared lesser adventures exploring the Long Island 'wilderness' in Boy Scouts in the late 1950s as well.

Looking forward to meeting up with all of you.

Rick Powell