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…

Administrivia: at $1.92 per mile, you’ve pledged over $2,500 to date! Fuchs is still in the lead, but ALS and Cancer have strong showings. I can’t get videos to embed, so click links.  Or follow my YouTube channel. This is the 2 month anniversary of my start date! Some have reached out about my last…

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…

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…