Mail!

Hello Everyone!

This post is all about how we would love to hear from you during our hike.  Here are the places along our hike where we can receive mail and packages.   We will have to go these post offices anyway to pick up our food, but we also love to get news from home!   Here are some instructions on how packages and mail can reach us:  

-Letters can be mailed First Class (that is normal, regular mail)

-Boxes must be mailed via Priority Mail throught the US Post Office.  If you send a box via First Class or Parcel Post, we probably won't get it.  We've had the best luck with Priority Mail, for sure.

-If you do feel inclined to send a care package, food that we can snack on right away is always a big hit (cookies, chocolate, candy, etc.).  

-We don't have exact dates of when we'll get to each post office, but we've estimated a date that is on the early side.  Our arrival may very well be up to a week after the said date.

-When addressing your envelop or package write:

Anna or Garrett Cole

c/o General Delivery

City, Zipcode

- Also write on the envelope or package: "Hold for PCT Thru-hiker.  ETA: (date listed below)."   This memo can go in a corner somwhere visible but not in the way.  If you're mailing a box it's also helpful to write "COLE" in big letters on other sides of the box so it's easily identified in the post office.

Here are our post office stops:

Warner Springs, CA (this post office is tiny, so if you do send something please keep it small!)

92086

ETA 5/15

Belden, CA  

95915

ETA 7/12

Castella, CA

96017

ETA 7/22

Ashland, OR

97520

ETA 8/1

Cascade Locks, OR

97014

ETA 8/21

Just a couple more days until we ship out.  We are now at my parents' house in Ashland, VA getting our last things together.  Next post should be from the trail!

Anna