Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
#gear
In the US, you can send something to yourself or anybody as follows:
[your name]c/o General Delivery[Post Office, ST ZIP]
In your case, the address would be:
Dieter Mossbruckerc/o General
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steve herr
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Re: LNT in a pandemic
Agreed! Thank you.
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Charlene Jensen
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Re: LNT in a pandemic
And you moderators have done a great job of keeping
the lid on this forum. Keep it up!
Pete Klein
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Peter Klein
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Re: LNT in a pandemic
Spellchecked edit to my recent comment
There are significant differences between the JMT-relationship of the post that started this thread vs. calling COVID the "China virus" a post here without any
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John Ladd
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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You can mail it to the Mt. Williamson Motel and BaseCamp and we will hold it and/or your food for a fee and you won't be hindered by Postoffice hours.
www.mtwilliamsonmotel.com
Lauralyn
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Lauralyn
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Re: LNT in a pandemic
So we shouldn't talk about giardia and filtering water either. This is not a public health forum.
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Carlos Zenteno
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Re: LNT in a pandemic
I am also a physician. This is not a public health forum. Please stop.
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Charlene Jensen
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Re: LNT in a pandemic
Our backpacking trips impact neighboring communities, many of which are remote and lack the resources of larger cities. It¡¯s why many Indian reservations remain closed to outsiders to this
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Juan Melli
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Please stop¡only interested in backpacking related topics
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Kevin Nadin
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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Hi Chris,
it is all a bit more complicated if you live somewhere else.
I bought my BV500 online from REI during Independence Day sale 2019, for pickup in a LA store when I was there (late
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Henning Rech
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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Hi Dieter,
we just bought our bear canisters in a sale at REI for a 20% discount.
Regarding the fact it might not be the last hike in the Sierra for you, get one e.g. the bear vault 500 for around
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Christoph Wiegand
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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Bearikades are great investments, and I mean that literally. They seem indestructible and used canisters often sell for just a small discount to new, especially if Wild Ideas doesn¡¯t have many in
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ravi_jmt2013
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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One note regarding Wild Ideas: make sure to reserve it soon. They often run out of rentable canisters months in advance.
Amazing canisters, by the way. We¡¯ve owned two for over ten years and they
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hike@...
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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This is really good news! We really want to rent canisters from wild ideas. Hopefully I can pre-book these canisters from Germany.
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Dieter Mossbrucker <dieter@...>
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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Sage to Summit in Bishop rents the wild ideas bear canisters.
Ian
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Ian Goldsmith
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Re: Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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You can rent from the Forest Service or Elevation in Lone Pine, or a really good one from Wild Ideas.? CHeck with Wild Ideas to see if they will deliver to you General Delivery in Lone Pine/
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Peter Hirst
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Send bear canister to post office in Lone Pine.
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We live in Germany, so some things are unknown to us. For our JMT-NoBo in August we would like to borrow a bear canister. Is it possible to mail a bear canister to the Post Offive in Lone Pine and
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Dieter Mossbrucker <dieter@...>
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Politics and this Forum
This forum is exclusively devoted to the John Muir Trail, hiking, backpacking, etc.
This is NOT the place for politically charged musings about things that have nothing to do with those
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Byron Nevins
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This group does indeed have policies.? We don't want political discussions here.? The entire social media is out there for that purpose.? Please don't post incendiary comments in
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Byron Nevins
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LNT in a pandemic
As a physician I would encourage all of us to practice good viral hygiene while on our adventures. ?This means: get vaccinated and boosted. ?Don't travel if you are ill, and wear a mask when you are
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Tom Kennefick
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