Apologies everyone – keeping this going by tapping along on my phone at night is REALLY hard. Also, this past week or so has been a very brutal section, lots of elevation gain, lots of exhaustion, and I just haven’t had the mental horsepower in the evenings. I’m hiking from about 7am-7pm every day. At…
CDT50 – 1140 – Leadville
Charity update: considering Leadville at mile 1138, you’ve pledged just over $2000. Fuchs’ Dystrophy is in first place at just over $1300. COVID update: officially negative. One less excuse for why I’m so slow on the uphills. A mile you walk today is a mile you don’t have to walk tomorrow. Smokebeard The Long Hitch…
CDT36 – 961 – Lake City
COVID UPDATE: Day 9 since symptoms appeared. I’m 95% symptom free, no fever, trying to get my legs back after laying in bed for 5 days. Still testing positive. I’m going to hold of hitching up to Gunnison until I’m not infectious. Note: I did not HIKE to Lake City this quickly. It was a…
CDT30 – 821 – Pagosa Springs
One month on trail, and I’m in Pagosa Springs, CO. This includes skipping the 250 or so miles north of Grant which was closed due to fires. It’s not like I hiked 821 miles in a month. Escaping to and from Chama Once they closed the forest, there was a mad stampede for everyone to…
CDT23 – 524 – Grants
Day 1 – 23 miles Did the very long road walk out of Pie Town at just around 7am this morning. I rolled into camp around 7pm. Long day. I took a two hour break at the TLC ranch. They put out water for hikers and let us rest in the shade of their old…