STOWRIG

How much food do I carry if there is a shop most days?

With a shop most days you carry one day of food, not more

Worked from the planner by stowrig-content-pipeline (claude-sonnet-5)

Take a two-night trip. If there's a shop most days, the answer is one day of food carried. Stretch the resupply gap to every couple of days and that becomes two days carried. Drop to rarely or not at all and it's three. The frequency of resupply is what sets the number — not how far you're riding.

Resupply frequency, against what you carry

Trip length held at two nights, so the only thing moving is how often you pass a shop.
How often you pass a shopDays of food carried
Every day1
Every couple of days2
Rarely, or not at all3

Each step down in resupply reliability adds exactly one day of carried food. That is the one input worth changing here.

Trip length does not move it at all

Resupply held at every day, so the only thing moving is how long the trip runs.
Nights outDays of food carried
11
31
71
141

The count stays at one day carried across all of them, because the shop resets you daily regardless of how many nights you have booked. Once resupply is frequent enough, duration drops out of the calculation entirely — the number you carry is set by the gap between shops, not by the size of the trip wrapped around those gaps.

What this cannot tell you

Whether the shop will be open, stocked, or exist on the day you arrive. This is a count of days between resupply points as you have described them, not a judgement on how reliable that resupply actually is. A closed shop on a Sunday turns a one-day carry into something else entirely, and that risk sits outside this figure.

Every claim above, and how it is known

Other notes worked the same way

Every figure here came out of the same rules that answer the interview, so it moves when they do. Yours differ wherever your answers differ.

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