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Colorado Trail: Te Amo

Colorado Trail: Te Amo

Lights and shadows. Inspiration comes, sometimes unbidden and other times because it's been chemically induced. Then it goes, as predictable and rhythmic as the tide going out. Or the arrival...

Nov 10, 2022 : Isabella Zenaidah
Colorado Trail: Lights and Shadows

Colorado Trail: Lights and Shadows

My spirit felt uneasy. The dissonance between my own aggravation and my idyllic surroundings seemed to compound my sense of alienation. I reminded myself that emotional troughs usually follow psychedelic...

Oct 20, 2022 : Isabella Zenaidah
Colorado Trail: Internal Terrain of Thru-Hiking

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...

Jun 30, 2022 : Isabella Zenaidah
CT: 6/16/22

CT: 6/16/22

6/16/22 Cold. High. Quiet. All good. Hitched to TH. West to East. Durango on the Western Slope to Watertown Canyon on the Eastern. Took off. Alone. Wearing gloves, long pants,...

Jun 18, 2022 : Naomi Brown
Colorado Trail Training

Colorado Trail Training

3/09/22 Training. KN and her rescue mutt, Jewel, accompany me as I train for CT, June, 22 CT. The best way for training is just doing it. Eh? So, I...

Mar 9, 2022 : Naomi Brown
Colorado Trail 2022 Prep-N Brown

Colorado Trail 2022 Prep-N Brown

  2/27/22. As a total neurotic, I have to plan for everything on the almost 600-mile Colorado Trail starting in June, 2022.  Having  generated a spreadsheet for everything, I will hike...

Feb 27, 2022 : Naomi Brown
We Done Did It

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...

Sep 29, 2021 : Ellie B.
Goodbye PCT, Hello Colorado Trail!

Goodbye PCT, Hello Colorado Trail!

A lot has changed since I last posted, including the trail I’m hiking! I restarted at Sonora Pass as planned the day after my last post. Between the elevation change...

Sep 13, 2021 : Ellie B.