We send most of our human food and dog food out on the trail ahead of time in “drop bags.” These bags are labeled and left at each checkpoint along the trail. Each bag weighs about 40 pounds, and we send about 40 of them out on the trail (2 – 3 bags to each checkpoint). These bags are mostly full of human food, dog food, dog booties, gloves, batteries, dry socks, heat packs, runner plastic, dog blankets and foot cream for the dogs. Sometimes the volunteers at the checkpoint will cook for us, too, and that is really nice!