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 ...

Day 59: First view of the Winds

Friday, August 14 The section coming up is a very beautiful area called the Wind River mountains. It is very remote and much like the Sier...

Day 57: Zero in Dubois, Wyoming

Tuesday, August 12 We had a good zero day today. We did the normal zero day stuff. We ate, watched movies in the motel room, etc. There ...

Day 58: Second bear sighting

Thursday, August 13 We went to breakfast and then packed up to go back to the trail. It was hot on trail which was a nice welcome back a...

Picture update

For those interested, I have uploaded all of my pictures so far from the trip. There is a link at the top of the main blog page that will ta...

Day 56: Into Dubois

We only had 8 miles to get to the highway. We crossed a few awesome lakes along the way. One was so still that it was a perfect mirror...

Day 55: Buffalo Falls

Monday, August 10 The highlight of the day was the falls at the buffalo river. We weren't sure what to expect, but when we got there w...

Day 54: Parting of the waters

Sunday, August 9 After the long day yesterday, we slept in a little bit this morning. We exited Yellowstone early in the day. The terrai...

Day 53: Long wet day

Saturday, August 8 Because of our permit, today was going to have to be a 29.5 mile day. We decided to wake up early, when we did, it wa...

Day 52: Relaxing day

Friday, August 7 Our permit only had us going about 16 miles today so we slept in until about 8:30. We hiked a pretty easy 6 miles to an...

Day 51: Old faithful

Thursday, August 6 A quick 8 miles and we made it down into the valley where all the major thermal pools are in Yellowstone. It was pret...

Day 49: Easy day

Tuesday, August 4 We weren't sure how many miles we would need to do today until we got our Yellowstone permit finalized. We called th...

Day 50: Wyoming and Yellowstone!!!

Wednesday, August 5 Today was an awesome day. We had about 23 miles to make it to our first camp in Yellowstone. When we woke up at our ...

Day 48: The Swamp

Monday, August 3 We had a big day to get into town so we got up a littler earlier. We were making good time until a section of trail that ...

Day 47: First moose sighting!

Sunday, August 2 We saw our first moose on trail today!! I've been waiting forever to see one! We came up to a nice creek to take a ...

Day 46: Getting volcanic

Saturday, August 1 I can't believe it is August already! I also can't believe we are nearing 900 miles and almost to Yellowstone! ...

Day 45: Zero day in Lima

Friday, July 31 Today was a good Zero. We pretty much didn't move except to go to the diner and buy some snacks at the gas station. Bo...

Day 44: To Lima, MT

Thursday, July 30 We had mostly road walking for about 9 miles to Interstate 15. The hotel owner in Lima, MT will pick you up if you stay ...

Day 43: Roller coaster

Wednesday, July 29 It seems that the day before a town day is always a struggle. Motivation always seems so low. Today was no exception. W...

Day 42: Make up miles.

Tuesday, July 28 We woke up early to get in a big day. We were all worried about food because of the very short day yesterday. We were pla...