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Colorado The Ass Kicker
Leaving Grand Lake In the morning i faff around at the visitor center, calling family and friends and sorting out my resupply. I end up leaving
35mm on the CDT: Part 2
I'm carrying a 35mm film camera with me on my CDT hike. My first post goes into detail on the camera im using The two rolls of film in this
The Basin is Actually Awesome
🔥Hot Take Alert🔥 Lots of Hikers I’d coming south met said that The Great Divide Basin was going to suck. Reasons why the Basin is great Its such a contrast to the winds you get really big skies theres loads to see. not just flat theres loads of wildlife night hiking is epic you can do big miles the water sources and carries aren’t as bad as people say …
The Rain & The Winds
Leaving Dubois I left Dubois in the morning after packing up, finishing my resupply and posting my bounce box. As i was walking to the post office it started to rain. It was light at first but by the time i was standing by the road trying to hitch it was a steady downpour. After 30 minutes of standing in the rain a truck pulls up and offers me a ride. An old guy called John who lived up near the pass. …
Yellowstone
Goodbye Idahana, Hello Wyoming I set off for Yellowstone from my camspot by the creek. The blisters that i had the day before already feel much better. Still noticeable but no way near as painful. The Mack’s inn alt cuts off miles, but trades it for a load of walking along roads and not much water. The morning is gentle climb up gravel tracks. Several ATV’s go past, one stopping to offer me a lift further up which i decline. …
Hitting My Stride: To Yellowstone
Hitting My Stride: to Yellowstone Elk mountain. I left Leadore in the afternoon. During the day i hung out at the Mustang Inn. Finishing up little
35mm on the CDT: part 1
I’m carrying a 35mm film camera with me on my CDT hike. I’ve been taking film cameras with me on all my outdoors adventures i’ve been on in the last 6 years. I like the way the photos look and i like the way it forces me to be a intentional with the images im take. For the CDT i took an Olympus XA3 as my camera. This is a semi automatic compact camera from the 1980’s that comes from the Olympus XA family of cameras. …
Unexpected beauty: North Beaverhead
The hitch out of Darby was hard. I stood outside the gas station for an hour and a half. The owner of the bakery nearby came out an hour in and gave me some water and a bag with some sandwiches and cake in to snack on while i waited. Eventually a firefighter for The Forest service offered me a ride part of the way to Sula. His name was Dustin and we had a good conversation on the way. …
