Q&A Session #1
We received several questions from one of our Instagram followers, tahoe_dynamite. Thanks for your questions, tahoe! This shorter episode answers those questions and gives our best advice for hikers to come and hikers already out there.
Topics: PCT books, supplements, protein powder, and resupply locations on trail.
Questions asked:
1 // Books to read…did you read all the hiking PCT books or just Yogi?
Answer: A few, but all on Audible.
A / Free Outside: A Trek Against Time and Distance by Jeff Garmire
B / The Trail Provides: A Boy’s Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail by David Smart
C / The Last Englishman by Keith Foskett
D / Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann
E / Hikertrash: Life on the PCT by Erin Miller
F / Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: And Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail by Carrot Quinn
2 // Supplements, protein powder, etc?
Answer: Supplements were iron tablets, salt tabs, some Airborne tablets at the beginning, but largely sugar. It’s not a supplement, but Basecamp needed to take sugar “shots” on occasion to keep going. For protein powder, yes, we would drink protein powder (usually collagen) mixed with hot cocoa or other sweet mixes for desert at the end of each day.
3 // Do you have the list of towns that didn’t have a lot of grocery stores or places to get food? I’m veggie, so I’m very much worried I cannot sustain with what is available in certain towns and I’ve seen some places that had a decent general store with little options for me.
Answer: Every town or resort that we stopped at had options for food resupply. Ramen is everywhere, but you will definitely be able to get “something” at each place, even if it’s just junk food. If we hiked the PCT again, we wouldn’t have sent ourselves a single box of food. One clutch food to check out is dehydrated refried beans.
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