Day 1 – welcome to the Basin Lady hiker: have you seen the trash? I want to throw out my TP bag. Smokebeard: do you throw out the whole bag or just dump it into a toilet? Lady hiker: I throw out the whole bag, sometimes there’s other stuff in there, like wipes, or ……

Full post later, maybe in a week or so. No time/energy to wordsmith. Not dead, still hiking. Mosquitoes in the Wind River range might do me in though. Hike has turned into, or always was, a loosely-connected series of 4-5 day jaunts, separated by long hitches, traffic, big towns, and logistics. “Hikes along the Continental…

Day 1 – out of the woods We all gravitated to the Post Office, some for mail, all for rides.  Its the social center of Encampment.  By 9am we all got a hitch, a guy who had promised the previous day to pick up a lady hiker.  It’s a known thing that having a lady…

Heading to Encampment, WY.   Crossing state lines.   Making miles.  Spraining ankles.   Swatting mosquitoes. Charity update – Mile 1519 x $1.92 per mile equals just over $2900.   Thanks for playing along. 5 days in Steamboat Springs I spent 5 days in Steamboat Springs with a bad ankle. Because it was a holiday weekend, and a rich…

Unrelated to coming into Steamboat Springs, but this scene from the 80s movie Road Warrior captures a facet of thruhiking perfectly. Also, Bruce Spence is a genius. Click for movie scene Day 1 – Leaving Grand Lake All hitches are easy when you’re a 30 year old woman. Smokebeard Having camped semi-legally outside town, on…