Finished!!

On October 23, Heather and I made it to the Mexican border! It has been an amazing trip. I can't believe it is over. Finishing a long ...

Day 97: Reunited!

Monday, September 21 Heather and I packed up and headed to a motel that our guide said offered rides back to the trail for a fee. As we we...

Day 92: Mt. Elbert

> Wednesday, September 16 > > After about 8 miles of hiking, we came up to the trailhead for Mt. Elbert. At 14,433ft, it is the...

Day 93: 3 months on trail!

Thursday, September 17 Wow, 3 months have flown by. I can't believe it. We only have about a month and a half left. It is going to be ...

Day 94: Cottonwood hot springs

Friday, September 18 The highlight of today was Cottonwood Hot springs. It was a really cool place with a hotel resort and a few hot spr...

Day 96: Zero in Salida

Sunday, September 20 We zeroed today. We spent most of the day watching football at a couple different restaurants and bars. Our hotel had...

Day 91: Snow in the mountains

Tuesday,  September 15 It had rained overnight. When we started hiking, we caught a glimpse of some of the high peaks, they were covered w...

Day 87-89: Family weekend

Friday, September 11 - Sunday, September 13 Our parents flew in on Friday. Heather and I met them in Breckenridge in the afternoon. Brecke...

Day 90: Back to it

Monday, September 14 We reluctantly returned to the trail today. It was tough to get going, but eventually made it back to the trail. Pa...

Day 85: Beautiful Day

Wednesday, September 9 We woke up to a good amount of wind outside. We had set up our tent in a nice sheltered spot, so the wind wasn'...

Day 84: James Peak

Tuesday, September 8 We woke up to clear skies above us. We began the climb up to the divide. The ground was frozen all the way up. When w...

Day 83: Rain, rain go away

Monday, September 7 It rained...like all day. We woke up and it was clear, but about an hour into the day it started raining. We follo...

Day 82: Relaxing day in Grand Lake

Sunday, September 6 We slept in pretty late. Basically until checkout time at the motel. We went to breakfast at a place that had a buff...

Day 81: Into Grand Lake

Saturday, September 5 Today was another long but motivated day to get to town. We hiked through some beautiful wilderness areas. There w...

Day 80: Awesome views

Friday, September 4 Today had a lot of climbing. But the views when we were up on the divide were amazing. The weather wasn't the be...

Day 76: Motivated

Monday, August 31 It rained all night last night. Luckily, it stopped around 4-5am. We decided to get up early and be on trail around 6am....

Day 77-78: Zeros in Steamboat

Tuesday, September 1 - Wednesday, September 2 We decided to take 2 Zeros in Steamboat for a couple reasons. 1) We are meeting our parents ...

Day 79: Colorado thunderstorms

Thursday, September 3 We took our time in the morning, for breakfast, then headed to the highway to hitch a ride. We got picked up pretty ...

Day 75: Hot

Sunday, August 30 Most of the trail today allowed dirt bikes too. I missed riding my dirt bike and wish I was riding it today instead of w...

Day 74: Colorado!

Saturday, August 29 We woke up at the campground we were staying at and packed up. For some reason, the post office in town was only open ...

Day 69-73: In and out of Rawlins, WY

Monday, August 24 - Friday, August 28 Sorry for the bulk post, but nothing super exciting has happened this week and I was slacking on wri...

Day 68: New Friend

Sunday, August 23 Today was another cold morning in the Basin. We ended up having to do a bit of climbing from camp through rolling hills....

Day 66: Atlantic City

We got to sleep in this morning because the gift shop (where we sent a resupply box) didn't open until 9am. Turns out we didn't find...

Day 67: The Great Basin

Saturday, August 22 Today was our first full day in the basin. It was a wide open, flat day. It was a cold morning and the inside of our...

Day 65: Moose

Thursday, August 20 Today we started our descent out of the mountains and into the great basin. We will be in the flat and treeless great ...

Day 64: Sad to leave Big Sandy Lodge

Wednesday, August 19 I stoked the fire in our wood stove to heat up the cabin in the morning. The outside temp was in the 30s so it was ge...

Day 63: Rush to Big Sandy Lodge

Tuesday, August 18 Today we were heading into Big Sandy Lodge. Big Sandy is a lodge just on the outskirts of the Winds. They hold hiker pa...

Day 62: 2 months in trail!

Monday, August 17 2 months ago we started the trail. Time is starting to really fly by. We are already about halfway through Wyoming and w...

Day 61: Best day so far!

Sunday, August 16 Today was awesome!! We decided to take an alternate that many CDT hikers take that goes over Knapsack Col. Knapsack Col ...

Day 60: Busy Winds

Saturday, August 15 We went over a pass in the morning and into what we thought was the wilderness area. As we went over another climb we ...