The penultimate post!

So if you guys are sick of hearing about us planning and packing for the trip, I promise, we're about a hundred times sicker of planning and packing for the trip. But here's our second to last post before we hit the trail (tomorrow you can expect photos of us sporting our trail haircuts and photos of our completely packed packs!

We took all of our boxes off to the Post Office today. We shipped off 11 boxes in total. We shipped the box to our first pick up point last Friday to be sure it would get there on time. We have yet to ship our buckets to Muir Ranch because we haven't gotten a big enough bucket yet. They charge $50 a bucket no matter what size, so my awesome parents are going to get us a big old 10 gallon bucket to put all of our stuff in.

We also have our packs packed and ready to go. The packs seem to have gotten heavier, as they are apt to do. We're both weighing in at around 23 lbs before food and water, and around 35lbs with 6 days worth of food and 2 liters of water. Still pretty manageable and I expect the few comfort items we are carrying along will be much appreciated along the way.

We catch our train to Dunsmuir, Ca at around 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon and arrive at around midnight. We will find our way to the trail the next morning and then the fun begins!