Long Distance Hiker

Date: 9/20/20 Daily Miles: 22 Total Miles: 1550 Last night was quite warm and comfortable. At some point in the night, we were woken up by the wind...it was blowing good, but seemed to just be in the tops of the trees and not actually … [Read more...]

Date: 9/19/20 Daily Miles: 11 Total Miles: 1528 Today definitely didn’t turn out as we had planned. We had expected to walk five miles to the state highway, hitch into Abiquiu where we had a package waiting at the post office, eat some … [Read more...]

Date: 9/18/20 Daily Miles: 23 Total Miles: 1517 As expected, last night was really cold. Beardoh stayed warm and slept well, but SweetPea’s feet got cold during the night and she had a hard time sleeping. As we packed up in the dark, it … [Read more...]

Date: 9/17/20 Daily Miles: 24 Total Miles: 1494 Last night turned out to be quite cold. We were camped in a slight valley and that made a big difference. It was just a cold morning in general, though. We had all of our layers on for … [Read more...]

Date: 9/16/20 Daily Miles: 23 Total Miles: 1470 It was a really nice night and we both slept soundly. SweetPea heard elk bugling several times this morning after 4am. “Bugling” is such a strange term for it, since it sounds so weird and … [Read more...]

Date: 9/15/20 Daily Miles: 17 Total Miles: 1447 Yesterday we finished up our drive south to Santa Fe and started our entirely too long journey on NM public transit to Chama. We spent about two hours actually on the buses riding and over … [Read more...]

Date: 9/13/20 Daily Miles: 8 Total Miles: 1430 Even though we only hiked eight miles today, it feels like it has been three days rolled into one. We were woken up at 5:00am, when first horses and the quads came by our camp. We … [Read more...]