Date: 9/18/20 Miles: 8.0Total Miles: 1505.1 True story: I haven’t showered in 9 days. That’s not real hardship, actually. Had I not stopped to count I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. The trees that began to appear strewn across the trail in great piles, however, had the feel of a much more tangible…
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Stone and Smoke
Date: 9/17/20 Miles: 15.7Total Miles: 1497.1 “Getting up is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”—Ed Viesturs Of all the mountains I’ve spent time in, two have held a particularly special place: the High Sierra are in my heart, but the Adirondacks of my home are in my blood. What we’d see today had me wondering how…
Yosemite East
Date: 9/16/20 Miles: 19.3Total Miles: 1481.4 Did we miss something? Not five minutes down the trail from where we’d slept, it looked like a great hand had swept through the forest and toppled everything in its path, both the living and the dead. What looked like perfectly healthy trees, some several feet in diameter, lie…
Open Season
Date: 9/15/20 Miles: 21.6Total Miles: 1462.1 Hanging from trees a few steps off a dirt road, the sound coming toward us as we packed up was not surprising. Growing louder, an ATV and a 4-wheeler came around the bend and the two hunters aboard stopped to chat with us about whether we’d seen any other…
Navigation: Getting from A to B
Date: 9/14/20 Miles: 21.1Total Miles: 1440.5 How do you know where you’re going? It’s a pretty simple (and important) question, and one that’s among the most common we hear (perhaps second only to “Have you seen any bears?” Answer: yes). So, here goes—a crash course in finding your way along the CDT, with something to…
