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CT Days 25-26
Day 25 - 21.4mi My last full day on trail. And it is about to throw everything it has at me. I start way before sunrise, to get over the last
CT Days 23-24
Day 23 - 27.5mi In the weak light of the morning, we inch our way down the excessively sloped and slippery trail, following Elk Creek descending
CT Days 21-22
Day 21 - 17.2mi Last night at the campground, a man came around with a flashlight to the tenters telling us to beware of our food, there was a bear
CT Days 19-20
Day 19 - 18.4mi I wake up to a frosty tent that painfully freezes my hands when I go to pack it up. Even so, when I get going around 7:00 a.m., I
CT Days 17-18
Day 17 - 26.1mi (+1 = 27.1) I’m so confident about managing my water situation today that when I leave camp, I actually dump a third of a liter
CT Days 15–16
Day 15 - 0mi Not much to say about this day, except for that Salida is a very cute town, and I don’t put my backpack on. I go get a big breakfast
CT Days 13-14
Day 13 - 25.1mi The moon is so bright during the night, I think someone’s shining a spotlight on me. I ‘sleep in’ until it’s light out, but it kind
CT Days 11-12
Day 11 - 24.4mi I get a ride with Katy Kat’s Kash Kab from Leadville to just outside of Twin Lakes, where the trail crosses the highway. Where I
CT Days 9-10
Day 9 - 11.7mi It’s a sleepless night, and I realize that I’m not chill enough to wait more than a week to be reunited with my passport. Today, I am
CT Days 7-8
Day 7 - 22.9mi Same routine today, catching the 6.30am bus to Copper. But this time, I continue west, onto segment 8. It has stormed pretty hard