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...