Day 20: 06 May, 3.0 miles today, 338.0 miles total, Pie Town, NM Breakfast at the Top of the World general store was not worth the wait. Perhaps in prior years it had been a… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 4: CDT boot camp
Day 11: 27 April, 18.2 miles today, 176.0 miles total, Gila National Forest, NM Gila River Crossings: 0 Today we didn’t even set foot on the official CDT, opting to leave Silver City via the… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 3: water and fire
Day 06: 22 April, 18.6 miles today, 102.1 miles total, Hornbrook Mountain, NM As we left Lordsburg our packs were laden with food for the next four days and water for the next 15 miles… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 2: blisters and dust
Day 00: 16 April, 0.0 miles today, 0.0 miles total, Lordsburg, NM The TSA precheck line in Atlanta built and built and built without moving. The airport had compensated for the decreased foot traffic at… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 1: a new beginning, a good beginning
Two things were immediately clear to me the moment I bailed on my thru-hike of the Benton Mackaye Trail. The first was that my increased weight was going to continue to put an increased strain… Read More »Walking Practice
Day 50: 27 Feb, 49.5 miles today, 2,658.7 miles total, Sun City West, AZ Even before we got into Chandler, we’d planned to do a short day on the way out—an idea that was only… Read More »My half-assed, unedited, and poorly thought-out bike diary, part 8 (the last part)
Day 43: 20 Feb, 62.6 miles today, 2,246.8 miles total, Caballo, NM When we were planning this trip, the single most important concern was how completely out of shape we felt. Worried that we might… Read More »My half-assed, unedited, and poorly thought-out bike diary, part 7
Day 36: 13 Feb, 54.0 miles today, 1,877.9 miles total, Marathon, TX A thought that has followed me on this trip like a farm dog I just can’t shake is how much uncertainty the bicycles… Read More »My half-assed, unedited, and poorly thought-out bike diary, part 6
Day 29: 6 Feb, 39.3 miles today, 1,503.0 miles total, Fredericksburg, TX Made it about half as far as we planned today. Probably not going anywhere tomorrow. Not a great start to the week. The… Read More »My half-assed, unedited, and poorly thought-out bike diary, part 5
Day 22: 30 Jan, 60.7 miles today, 1,206.0 miles total, Cold Spring, TX Texas is a cruel state. Heartless. Arrogant. Mean-spirited. It revels in its ignorance, lumbering onward in the belief that it’s sheer size… Read More »My half-assed, unedited, and poorly thought-out bike diary, part 4