Date: 9/10/20 Daily Miles: 18 Total Miles: 1381 The true title of the blog post should be Encampment Entrapment because it felt like we were there for so long. Our first triple zero on trail...three rest days in a row. Coming into … [Read more...]
CDT Day 75 – Encampment
Date: 9/6/20 Daily Miles: 13 Total Miles: 1363 Last night was probably our warmest night on the trail. It is pretty crazy to think of the temperature swings in the area. Less than a week ago, we had ice on our tent and in a few days, … [Read more...]
CDT Day 74 – Out of the Basin
Date: 9/5/20 Daily Miles: 25 Total Miles: 1350 Today felt like a marathon day. We got up in the dark this morning. We had thought that it was going to be a warm night, but it seemed that our culvert turned into a wind tunnel and it … [Read more...]
CDT Day 73 – Leaving Rawlins
Date: 9/4/20 Daily Miles: 25 Total Miles: 1325 We ended up taking an unplanned zero day on Rawlins. As we looked at the weather forecast, we saw that there is a winter storm coming early next week. We had already been planning to take a … [Read more...]
CDT Day 72 – Rawlins
Date: 9/2/20 Daily Miles: 12 Total Miles: 1300 It was cold out again this morning, but definitely not as cold as the last few mornings. The sun was on us pretty quickly and it warmed up nicely. Of course, the wind continues to be a … [Read more...]
CDT Day 71 – Bull Spring
Date: 9/1/20 Daily Miles: 26 Total Miles: 1288 It was another cold night and our tent was covered in ice when we woke up. It was so cold outside that we were reluctant to get out of our sleeping bags, but we couldn’t put it off. We … [Read more...]
CDT Day 70 – Crooks Creek
Date: 8/31/20 Daily Miles: 24 Total Miles: 1262 Last night was one of our coldest nights. We woke up to ice on the outside of our tent. We had both put in ear plugs before going to sleep to block out the noise from the wind. That … [Read more...]
