Long Distance Hiker

Daily Miles: 24 Total Miles: 787 Well, the trail ended in true GET style...basically one doozy of a day. Here goes... We slept in a bit and got a ride back to the trail from the hostel owner. We got to the trail at 8:45am, thinking we had a mellow … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 18 Total Miles: 763 Once we put our earplugs in we slept like babies, even with all the traffic commuting into ABQ in the morning. While the sky was heavy with thick grey clouds when we got up, it didn’t rain at all last night. We had … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 25 Total Miles: 745 It was pretty cold last night and our sleeping bags had dew on them in the morning. That is the first time this trip that that has happened. There wasn’t much to be done about it at that point, so we just packed up … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 21 Total Miles: 720 Holy Moly... what a day. Who would have thought that one of the hardest days on the trail would be this close to the end. It took us 14 hours of hiking to get in the 21 miles today and it was not easy. The day … [Read more...]

Daily Miles: 20 Total Miles: 699 After a relaxing afternoon and evening in the motel, we were lucky enough to get a ride back out to the trail this morning with the husband of the motel manager. We have been lucky to have some really nice motel … [Read more...]