Day 5: 23 June, 12.8 miles today, 65.9 miles total, Taft Lodge, Mt. Mansfield State Forest Days without rain: 1 The climb out of Bear Hollow was gentle and the walking was easy, but only… Read More »Bugs, Bruises, and Bogs on the Long Trail, part 2: American Ninja Whatever
Foothills Trail, Day 1: 19 May, 19.8 miles today, 19.8 miles total, Medlin Mountain, Sumter National Forest By the time I returned home to the Carolinas, the Foothills Trail was burning. I had been watching… Read More »Going to Carolina in My Mind (and also on foot): hiking the Foothills Trail and the Art Loeb Trail
Day 136: 30 August, 19.3 miles today, 2194.7 miles total, Bob Marshall Wilderness, MT The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, known to most CDT thru-hikers simply as “the Bob,” is one of those famous stretches of… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 20: the Bob
Day 126: 20 August, 26.7 miles today, 2011.2 miles total, Beaverhead-Deerlodge [sic] NF, MT The day we walked into Whitehall, my remaining 2L water bladder failed. The first one had sprung a fatal leak after… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 19: trying to keep it together while falling apart