Food and cooking; boxes to ship

Some thoughts:

From Chris Pirrello, Patagonia Boston, re: alcohol stoves.  Too slow, too scary for southern Cal and doomed for prohibition.  Chris swears by his JetBoil with the heat sinks welded/soldered onto the saucepan bottom.  I saw a similar Primus ETA lite stove at REI sale priced at $70.  I almost bought one, but thought the Snow Peak needed a good workout.  Presently my outfit weighs about 11.5 oz (stove, cup, Evernew titanium saucepan, pot cozy, and diy windscreen) and will burn about 6 gm to bring 2 cups or water to a rolling boil in 3:30.   I don't know how the 12.5 oz Primus performs.

IF authorities nix stoves for southern Cal, I'd eat either re-hydrated cold or go to snack bars, nut butters/jelly wraps and sandwiches--and the re-hydrating water will require treatment, too.  Why even bother with possibly carrying a stove and food intended for cooking.  I could forsake the stove until Kennedy Meadows.  Hot meals at asphalt trail stops will taste that much better.  The elevation exceeds 7,000' for 22 miles in section B, 44 miles in section C and 37 miles in section D.  It barely exceeds 5,000' in section E, 6,000' in F and consistently stays high only after Kennedy Meadows (section G).  Two to three days without hot food/drink at cooler altitudes--bearable as it's probably only mornings and nights.

Also from Chris:  use a bear can for the whole trail to protect from all critters, and for general convenience.

Boxes to pack for sending:

cold food boxes, nut butters, tortillas, bread, dried fruit, trail snacks, maps, trail notes, vitamins, toilet paper, dental floss, sunscreen, bug dope.

stove box with hot food, fuel, trail snacks, hot chocolate, maps, trail notes, vitamins, toilet paper, dental floss, sunscreen, bug dope, bug head net, shampoo

Kennedy Meadows box.  Ice ax and ice trekkers.  bug head net, shampoo

Hot Food boxes, fuel, chili, par boiled rice, dried bean soups, black bean, hummus? thin noodles to mix with bean mix,dried fruit,  olive oil, maps, trail notes, vitamins, toilet paper, dental floss.  curry spices, sunscreen, bug dope.

Hot food:  Fantastic foods mixes, rice, thin noodles,

Cold food:  trail snacks, dried fruit, tortillas, nut butters, bread,

every 400 miles: shampoo.
Every drop, toilet paper, floss, sunscreen until Washington. vitamins.