Thruhiker Resupply Items

This is a list of resupply items that are popular among thruhikers. It is mainly useful for small business owners who are interested in catering to thruhikers.

Items for the Hiker Area

• Fast wifi
• Outlets for recharging devices
• Trash can(s) for hikers to throw away garbage
• Picnic area

Food and Drink, First Aid, and Other Consumables

• A&W Root beer
• AAA batteries
• ACE bandages
• Advil, 30 ct
• Allegra
• Aquaphor mini tubes
• Arizona Iced Tea, 15.5 oz
• Austin crackers, variety pack
• Backpackers Pantry
• Bacon, the pre-cooked, packaged, shelf-stable kind.
• Band aids
• Bagels, plain
• Band aids – fabric, regular size
• Beef jerky
• Beer -- PBR, Sierra Nevada, others.
• Bel Vita crackers, assorted
• Benadryl
• Bobo’s coconut bars
• Body Glide (hiker size)
• Breakfast burritos
• Breakfast cereal
• Brownies
• Bug spray, DEET
• Bug spray, Picardin
• Candy bars variety pack
• Carnation instant breakfast mix
• Casbah Hummus mix
• Chapstick
• Cheese – 1 lb blocks and individual sticks
• Cheetos
• Cherry sours, sathers, 3.6 oz
• Chips, lunch size, variety pack
• Chips, regular size bags, Fritos, Doritos, lays
• Chocolate milk
• Condiment packets, especially mayo and hot sauce.
• Cough drops, regular and sugar free.
• Clif Bars –- assorted flavors
• Clif Bars -- Nut butter varieties
• Clif Builder protein bars
• Corn Nuts, original
• Corn Nuts, ranch
• Cous cous, Near East, assorted
• Couscous, Sam's choice
• Cream cheese packets
• Dried fruit
• Drumsticks (variety pack)
• Duct tape
• Eyeglasses repair kits
• Feminine hygiene products: pads, tampons, Diva Cup.
• Fig bars
• Flip flops, inexpensive
• Fresh fruits and vegetables: assorted fresh fruit, avocados.
• Gatorade protein bars
• Gatorade, assorted
• Gold Bond Medicated Powder, 1 oz
• Granola – cheap!
• Great Value Mountain Trail Mix
• Hair conditioner
• Hair ties
• Hand sanitizer (travel size)
• Hand warmers (chemical packets)
• Hazelnut spread, assorted flavors
• Honey Stingers gel packs, assorted
• Honey buns
• Hormel pepperoni (6 oz, resealable package)
• Hummus, Kirkland organic individual cups
• Ice cream
• Idahoan – Assorted varieties
• Instant oatmeal packets
• Jerky: beef, turkey
• Jolly Ranchers
• Justin's honey almond butter packets
• Justin's peanut butter packets
• KT tape
• Kirkland organic hummus cups
• Klondike ice cream bars
• Knorr, assorted, some rice some noodles
• Laundry detergent for hikers, individual packs, unscented.
• Leukotape
• Lipton iced tea, bottled, assorted
• Lotion, aloe, travel size
• Lucerne Vanilla Sundae bars
• Mayo packets
• Mentos
• Milk powder, carnation, 3.2 oz
• Mio electrolytes
• Mission flour tortillas
• Monster energy drink
• Multivitamins
• Native Forest coconut milk powder
• Nature Valley Biscuits (peanut butter, almond butter, etc)
• Nature Valley, assorted, crunchy & chewy
• Nature’s Bakery Fig Bars
• Neosporin/polysporin – 0.5 or 1 oz and packets
• Nice 'n Clean wipes
• Nido
• Nutella mini cups
• Nutella – 8 or 12 oz
• Olive Oil, packets (Marconi) or plastic bottles.
• Open Nature Strawberry Greek frozen yogurt bars
• Oreos, lunch packs and sleeves
• Payday
• Peanut M&M’s – King/Share size
• Peanut butter, 8/12/16 oz
• Pickles, Mt Olive kosher dill petite cups
• Pickles, Van Holtens
• Pie, individual serving size
• Planters Nuts “24 variety pack”
• Pop Tarts, assorted flavors
• Pop Tarts, cookies n cream
• Pro bars, assorted
• Propel electrolyte mix
• Propel, bottled
• Protein bars – Clif Builder bars, Gatorade bars, Kind bars
• Ramen (all flavors)
• Razors, disposable
• Red Vines licorice
• Red bull
• Reese’s Fast Break
• Ritz crackers, long sleeves
• Ritz crackers, short sleeves
• Sabra hummus (individual packs, cold)
• Sam’s Choice couscous
• Santa Fe beans, dehydrated
• Santa Fe refried beans powder
• Sawyer DEET lotion
• Sawyer Squeeze (not “Mini”)
• Sawyer picardin lotion
• Sawyer squeeze, not mini
• Sawyer water bags, 64 oz
• Second Skin blister pads
• Seeds of Change quinoa and brown rice
• Shampoo
• Skittles
• Smart Water, 1 liter and 1.5 liter
• Smartwater – 1.5 liter
• Snickers
• Soda, cans, assorted flavors
• Sour cream packets
• Sour patch kids
• Sriracha packets
• Starbucks Frappacino, assorted flavors
• Starbucks via instant coffee
• Stove fuel canisters, isobutane, 4 oz and 8 oz net weight sizes
• Sunblock, SPF 50, zinc based, travel size.
• Sunglasses, inexpensive
• Tapatio Powder spice packets
• Tasters choice instant coffee
• Tasty Bite Indian Madras lentils
• Tenacious Tape gear repair tape
• That's It fruit bars
• Toothbrush
• Toothpaste (travel size)
• Tortillas – Mission, flour, 8 pack, resealable package
• Trail mix
• Trail Toes individual packs
• Travel sewing kits
• Triple antibiotic packets, 0.5 Grams,
• Tuna packets, not cans, assorted flavors
• Tylenol – 20 ct, 40 ct
• USB recharging cables, short, micro USB to type A and USB-C to type A.
• Vitamin Water
• Veggie Go's
• Welchs Orange juice
• Welchs apple juice
• Welchs grape juice
• Wet Wipes – Wet Ones travel 20 pack, Nice & Clean, scented and unscented varieties.
• Wholly Guacamole, 100 calorie snack packs
• Ziploc bags, "freezer" variety, sizes: "Snack," 1 liter, and 1 gallon.