Date: 7/9/20 Miles: 9.7Total Miles: 381.5 When short days like this dawn, it’s hard to think about much else than the shower and town food waiting at the end of the rainbow. But standing between us and that promised land was another 13,000 foot summit and a perfect morning to climb up and over it….
Date: 7/8/20 Miles: 19.7Total Miles: 371.8 Up a few more flights of stairs to the roof of Colorado, that’s where we were headed. At a cruising altitude of 12,000 feet and with an idyllic summer day to enjoy it, it’s easy to do the smart thing and let the snow-speckled photos do most of the…
Date: 7/7/20 Miles: 21.4Total Miles: 352.1 A few years ago, I came to a simple realization that if I had time to hike, to cook, to read, and have a project to dedicate myself to, life would be pretty satisfying. Those felt like the minimum ingredients for happiness, everything else being more or less superfluous….
Date: 7/6/20 Miles: 13.1Total Miles: 330.7 The mountain pine beetle likely has no conception of its impact on the landscape. No larger than a grain of rice, it proves the adage that even very small things can pack an incredibly big punch. Unfortunately for Colorado forests, that punch has been right to the gut of…
Date: 7/5/20 Miles: 15.8Total Miles: 317.6 For such a pleasantly warm summer afternoon, it sure didn’t begin that way. Shoving off down the trail this morning, the air was as still as it had been when the sun had set and the moon had begun to rise the night before. In fact, it was comfortable…
Engineer. Long distance hiker. Gear junkie. Chaco ambassador. Always dreaming of thru-hiking the next long trail. Read More…
