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…
CDT76 – 1519 – Encampment WY
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…
CDT67 – 1426 – Steamboat Springs
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…
CDT62 – 1343 – Grand Lake
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…
CDT59 – 1289 – Fraser
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…