8 July 2022 Telluride to Sneffels Highline Trail to Mill Creek Waterline Trail (14 miles, +4,100/-4,100 feet). Goose and I saved the best for last! A blue sky day and a hike to two spectacular basins and one of the most beautiful passes I have ever climbed. Perfect! We started from the gondola in Telluride,…
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Woods Lake to Navajo Lake
7 July 2022 Woods Lake to Navajo Lake and back (9 miles, +3,000/-3,000 feet). Today the weather looked a little better, so Goose and I decided to do a slightly longer hike. This time we drove to Woods Lake where we started our 2,500 foot climb into the Lizard Head wilderness, up to a ridge…
Telluride Escape
6 July 2022 Goose’s House to Ridge above Alta Lakes and back (9 miles +2,300/-2,300 feet). In August this year I was planning to do a long section hike on the Washington section of the PCT with my buddy Goose. He and I met on the PCT last year, when we hiked about 250 miles…
Day 23: Last Hike With Goose (For Now)
23 April 2021 Guffy Campground to Vincent Gap PCT Mile 364.4 to 374.0 I had a really tough time with the wind last night. I think I was so anxious that it might get too cold to sleep that I wasn’t able to just get cozy in my warm-enough state. I didn’t really get to…
Day 22: Up, Up, Up to Guffy
22 April 2021 Road to McDonald’s to Guffy Campground PCT Mile 341.9 to 364.4 It was great to sleep in a hotel the last two nights because it has been windy and COLD! But, the weather worked in our favor today because we had to climb 6,700 feet over 23 miles! When I planned this…
Day 21: Slackers
21 April 2021 Road near Highway 173 to Road to McDonald’s PCT Mile 318.7 to 341.9 Today was our “slackpack” day which is a hike without full packs. We left most of our stuff in the hotel and got a Lyft to the location where we left the PCT yesterday, and today we hiked back…
Day 20: Deep Creek Hot Springs
20 April 2021 Deep Creek Bridge to Road Near Highway 173 PCT Mile 298.5 to 318.7 What a crazy day! It feels like we packed three days into one. I got great sleep under the bridge last night and when I woke up this morning, I packed quickly. Half an hour before sunrise I was…
Day 19: Swimmin’ Hole
19 April 2021 Caribou Creek to Deep Creek Bridge PCT Mile 275.0 to 298.5 Our water bottles froze again last night…. But I was warm and slept great! ‘Cause pants! Nonetheless, it was not a temperature in which to linger once out of my sleeping bag, so I packed up quickly and hit the trail,…
Day 18: Twenty-Three in Nine
18 April 2021 Onyx Summit to Caribou Creek PCT Mile 252.1 to 275.0 Goose and I have an ambitious schedule. It’s 90 miles to the McDonald’s at Cajon Junction, and we want to get there in time for dinner on Wednesday. That’s about 23 miles a day for the next four days. Normally it would…
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