Date: 7/27/20 Miles: 10.5Total Miles: 665.9 Its fingerprints are all around us. The lingering patches of snow that still cling to the coolest of high alpine corners. The lifeblood of the thick carpet of tundra-thriving grasses, bold enough to color such a forbidding landscape with their flowering blooms. Even the glaciers that long ago sculpted…
Date: 7/26/20 Miles: 16.1Total Miles: 655.4 Hike your own hike. It’s a mantra you hear often on nearly any long distance trail. In real world terms, it’s meaning is simple: you do you. Hike at your pace, linger when you want to, and take the detours that most captivate your sense of adventure. Answer to…
Date: 7/25/20 Miles: 28.1Total Miles: 639.3 We don’t give them much thought, but they sure are everywhere. Roads. Dirt ones, paved ones, gravel ones, long-since abandoned logging ones, and every other flavor of the road rainbow. Walking long distances gives you a new appreciation of just how extensive the totality of our road system really…
Date: 7/24/20 Miles: 22.3Total Miles: 611.2 Like a truck stuck in second gear. That’s what it felt like when my feet took their first steps away from our camp this morning. The evening rains had left only to return a time or two overnight, ensuring that we’d be packing up wet tarps, at a minimum….
Date: 7/23/20 Miles: 22.1Total Miles: 588.9 Settled into a gentle curve in the Arkansas River, the town of Salida is beautiful little place even in the swell of a global pandemic. Our day off yesterday gave us a chance to run some errands in the downtown area where old brick buildings that harken back to…
Engineer. Long distance hiker. Gear junkie. Chaco ambassador. Always dreaming of thru-hiking the next long trail. Read More…
