Dan "Action" Hikes

Saturday, October 24, 2015

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 ...

Friday, October 02, 2015

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...

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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

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 ...

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...

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

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

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...

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

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...

Friday, September 11, 2015

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'...

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...

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...

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...

Sunday, September 06, 2015

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

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...

Friday, September 04, 2015

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....

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

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 ...

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

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...

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 ...