CDT
Colorado Trail: Internal Terrain of Thru-Hiking
Dark spruces interspersed with slender Aspens adorned with silver, grey, and sage green leaves fluttering in the wind. Columbines appeared in dense patches, swooning softly as though their silken white...
CDT Days 35-38: Pagosa Springs to Creede Cutoff
Day 35 16 miles We rolled out of town at 9am, catching a truck back up to Wolf Creek Pass without sticking a thumb out. Loaded down with 5 days...
CDT Days 18-22: Trail Closures and Becoming a Thru-hiker
Day 18 Zero Day in Pie Town Shadowhawk talks with local author, Uncle River, while sorting his resupply at the Toaster House. Day 19 25 miles It was hard...
CDT Days 12-17 Doc Campbell’s to Pie Town
Day 12 23 miles The first few hours flew by in the Gila, morning light illuminated the cliffs and turned the river into molten gold. Pairs of ducks flushed from...
CDT Days 5-8 Lordsburg to Silver City
Day 5 9 miles There are few better feelings on trail than waking up in a hotel bed, walking across the street to the gas station for a large coffee...
How to Eat an Elephant – Preparing for the CDT
BEHOLD: my stuff One bite at a time. Not that I would ever eat an elephant, even if I could - I am vegetarian. I first heard of this while...
CDT Days 1-4 Crazy Cook to Lordsburg
Day 1 17 miles My tramily and I left Lordsburg, NM at 6:30am in the CDT shuttle, a rented pickup truck driven by a man who introduced himself simply as...
Packing Resupply Boxes for the CDT
My Past Resupply Strategies In less than one week, I will be standing at the southern terminus of the CDT, ready to set out Northbound on my fourth thru-hike and...
We Done Did It
We finished the Colorado Trail yesterday! 487 miles in 21 days. After leaving Lake City we had one tough day with a bunch of climbs and then a few days...
Quarantine Dreams: 11,000 Miles in 2022
“If your dreams don’t scare you, you aren’t dreaming big enough.” I first came across this quote in an interview I read somewhere with one of the greatest adventure athletes...