You may have heard this term several times and thought what is that?

A bounce Box is a box of “Stuff” ie spares kit, batteries, and spare clothes that you may need but don’t want to carry in your pack so you Bounce it up the trail ahead of you.

The US Post system has a great service that lets you Bounce a parcel or package to another post office free of charge, Which I think is a fantastic, of course once you remove it you must pay again

Ie When you get to Post office at your location you take out what you need and pay again to Bounce it to your ned location   or if you need anything at all just Bounce it further up the trail

When I hiked the PCT in 2014 I was very green and like many hikers I took too much, mainly because lack of knowledge and the fact that I was coming from the UK.

I was very fortunate to have acquired most of my kit free of charge including spares and so I was bringing them with me so that I wouldn’t have to buy whilst in the US saving myself money

To be honest, my bounce box worked extreamly well, although I did bounce some crap, I didn’t need to bring so many pills and potions as these were so cheap in the US. making my box lighter and cheaper to post
I did not know how far I would get this being my first hike , although i did want to get to Canada , so t was difficult to know where to post my kit too 

My bounce box was a black plastic Tuff Box or crate, I made it more secure by drilling a couple of holes through the side and using cable ties, It I think it worked extremely well, some hikers use Food drums, others are happy with a card board box,

So below are the contents of my bounce box, highlighted in yellow are   things that I did not need,

Contents My Bounce Box

12 pairs of socks	2 Spare Head torches
2 Spare sunglasses	2 spare pairs of Pants
1 Spare Torch	1 spare Bite valve
1 Collapsible 1L bottle	1 X stove maintenance Kit
spare Batteries	Memory cards
2 large capacity Usb sticks	Spare charger
Gaffa Tape	Wet wipes
Hand sanitiser	Mosquito Head net
Knife	3 X gauze for Cooking
Waterproof Trousers	Spare Shirt
T-shirt	Backpack transporter
Sudocrem	2 X Ibuprofen Gel
2X Antihistamine Cream 25gm	1 X Lip Balm
1 X strip of Moleskin	Iodine
Fryers Balm	Surgical sprit
80 Codeine	100 Ibuprofen tablets
100 paracetamol,	80 Naproxen
20 Anti giardia Tablets	Purifying tablets
Spare Blister Plasters	Plasters
Spare maps pens /Address labels	Spare straps
pens /Address labels	Spare USB cables
100 hot chocolate sachets	1000 Teabags (Yes, I need these)

You  may  think  the  tea  and  hot chocolate  excessive  but  I  used  the  lot
I am British  I  love  my  tea But the other stuff i should have left at home but as i said i was green