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Distance = 19.5 Miles; People Met = 8 This was a surprisingly good day for meeting people, offset at the end by another setback in our struggle to find a suitable route from Moab to Grand Junction. We fist met … Continue reading
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Distance = 25 Miles; People Met = 23 We spent 5 days in the Moab area. Two were rest days while we hiked only half days the other days. There were four major objectives to accomplish in Moab: 1) Catching … Continue reading
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Distance = 33 Miles; People Met = 2 We only met two people on this stretch, but what a couple we met? Also, Barrett and Buster hooked up with us once again. Together this provided quite a tonic or the … Continue reading
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Distance = 65 Miles; People Met = 14 OK, this will probably be one of our biggest “downer” posts. While traversing National Forests and Parks we were greeted with daily rain and thunderstorms. Now that we are road walking through … Continue reading
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Distance = 19 Miles; People Met = 6 We really met more than 6 people, because a Bike & Build group went by us today. Since I’m on the board of the local Habitat affiliate I’m familiar with this program. … Continue reading
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Distance = 7 Miles: People Met = 12 Horrors! We actually backtracked two miles today, something that long distance backpackers avoid like the plague. Antimony is the reason. Pie Town, New Mexico was our gold standard for trail towns before … Continue reading
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Distance = 19 Miles; People Met = 12 We returned to road walking; my knees thanked me. It’s a good sign that they recover well from a day of torture. The scenery did not suffer in the least. We traveled … Continue reading
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After a long drive back from the airport, arriving at Milford early morning, we went back to Penny’s Diner for some coffee to get us going. There we ran into a group of twenty or so young adults on a … Continue reading
We flew back from Salt Lake City to JFK in order to attend a family wedding. As much as this hike is about humanity the best people to be with is family. We caught up with our three kids at … Continue reading
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Distance = 28 Miles; People Met = 1 Most of the day featured no wind; I did not know that was possible. Whereas yesterday I thought 100 degrees was in the eighties, today felt in the nineties. Clearly, crosswinds are … Continue reading
