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Day 42 Slept in and after slowly packing up we made our way to the cafe. After a double breakfast, smoothie, and muffin for the road Knucklehead picked us up along with several other hikers to go back to trail. With all to much food in my pack and belly, we got back on trail […]

Day 35 Ugh. Town must make a thru hiker soft cause I just didn’t want to deal. Windy again, snowy again, I’m tired of dealing with it, I want it to be comfortable. But this is thru hiking. Camp @ 856 = 9.1 TM (508.9 TTM) Day 36 Hard climb out in the morning, another […]

Day 29 Part 2 Got to Chama, picked up our packages and ate food. We got offered a ride up to trail so we rolled a couple miles out. Met Diva, Happy, Jacob, Charlie, T-Bone. Camp @ 782.8 miles, returned to trail @ 780 = 2.8 TM (435.7 TTM) Day 30 Met 70lbs hammer, olive […]

Day 20 Got out early and did 22 by 2. Way over achieved. I laid around bored for 4 hours waiting for my friends. Oh well, good day of road walking given I was expecting asphalt and got gravel. Full lunar eclipse tonight. Sunset was beautiful and the eclipse is looking good so far!! Camp […]

This was a big section. 9 days of backpacking without any real town stays. Definitely longest section/trip I’ve ever done and town, as spare as it was, was much appreciated at the end. Day 10 Zero Day! Slept in today. Stressful day (town usually is). Got all the chores done, had a pizza dinner. Packing […]

Day 5 Slept in and had a late breakfast at Kranberries. Headed to the dollar stores and supermarket for resupply. Found some trees and benches across from the past office to loiter about at. We chilled all afternoon waiting for the Sun to dip. Terrible microwave dinner from the dollar store before we headed out […]

Intro I’m journaling random stuff for each day on trail. I’m not putting lots of time into this but thought folks might enjoy the snippets. Day 0 Hitched from SC to Lordsburg. First with Bill, and then Paul. Bill worked on the railroad in Alaska for 40 years. Paul lived and worked in 5+ states […]