Food Caches

When planning a hike of any duration, one obvious question is "How much food do I have to bring?"  The easy answer is "How many days are you hiking?"  The nice thing about the Wonderland Trail is that there are Ranger Stations where you can drop off food to pick up on your journey. 

Along the Wonderland Trail, there are opportunities to drop food off at Longmire in the southwest, Mowich Lake along the west, Carbon River in the northwest, and Sunrise and White River Campground in the north east.  If you have the ability to have someone meet you, you can also meet up with people when you cross the road at Box Canyon in the southeast.  

Based on my desired Itinerary, it looks like the longest stretch that we would have between food caches would be 5 days at the beginning of the trip.  I do not relish carrying 12 days of food, so I will definitely be taking advantage of these places to drop off food. 

What type of food?  Well, that would be for another post.