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Melanie here (long-distance hiker, Triple Crowner, author of the Pacific Northwest Trail Town Guide). My husband Yeti and I are planning to do the Desert Trail staring in March 2022. Looking at all the caching possibilities. Do you have a list of all the places you cached? Did you use sketchy gravel roads that really do need a high clearance 4WD? We have taken our 2002 Subaru Forester on some pretty sketchy roads (my husband is fearless), but would not want to risk getting stuck in deep sand, for example. We have Buck 30s info, but I am thinking I like your strategy of more caching of both water and food. Would like to lighten our loads and long carries as much as we can.
Steve’s guidebooks are phenomenal.
Thanks in advance for any assistance. Melanie
Hi Melanie! Congratulations on the Triple Crown and your book! I don’t know if my list of cache locations still exists anywhere, but it might be just as well to come up with your own. I’d upload the route to gaia on a pc, look at Buck30s latest on water sources, then look at look at reasonable cache sites based on 4wd/paved/gravel road crossings. I’ve got a 4wd Tacoma and an Outback. I know I could do all the caching with an Outback if I used good judgment. I would avoid the temptation of driving into deep, remote sand in the handful of places you’ll find it. There are many crossings of good roads. Good luck!
I really enjoyed reading of your Alaskan adventures. I’ve traveled to Alaska only once. Spent 6 weeks traveling. I’m a Pennsylvania girl until moving to Wyoming in 2004. I’m back in PA right now since Nov 2019. How fast the years go by. I camped alone ,with my dogs, in the Bridger Teton National Forest many times. I now live in a cabin in the mountains. I look forward to reading more of your adventures!
Hi Grammy, Thanks for the message! Where did you live in Wyoming? The Bridger Teton is a beautiful area. I’ll bet you enjoy your cabin in the mountains. Happy Trails, Buck