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…

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…

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…