Thanks for following along everyone, and getting involved with the charity drive.   I spoke with a number of folks out there who appreciated that for many people, a multi-month outdoor adventure just isn’t possible.   Some people are robbed of the opportunity by bad genes, fate, or just bad luck.   Hopefully with more research, some of…

If you want to skip to the end, I’m off the trail.  I’ve got some damage to my ankle that won’t clear up in time for me to finish.   It’s been a great trip but I had to head home.  This was a tough one.  Still, I made it 1900 miles to Dubois, WY, just…

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…