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People Met = 12 Our stay in Grand Junction was devoted to three talks I gave. It was also supposed to be a time to catch up with web stuff. We figured there would be no better place to use … Continue reading
Day 090 – 8/22/11 Redlands to Grand Junction
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Distance = 6 Miles; People Met = 5 Given recent events, we targeted Colorado Mesa University for our destination in Grand Junction. We walked through the campus with full packs on and things began to happen. Michelle, an instructor for … Continue reading
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Day 089 – 8/21/11 Fruita to Redlands
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Distance = 10 Miles; People Met = 2 A poignant moment happened for me today. We stopped at a small mall in Redlands for lunch and access to wifi. Dre, the diver for a rafting tour that gave us water … Continue reading
Day 088 – 8/20/11 Colorado Border to Fruita
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Distance = 19 Miles; People Met = 9 After slackpacking through the arid eastern portion of Utah it felt good to be full packing again. That may sound strange, that we enjoy carrying more weight, but its more the autonomy … Continue reading
Day 087 – 8/19/11 Cisco Desert to Colorado Border
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Distance = 19.5 Miles; People Met = 0 Our last day in Utah is cause for tying up a few things, particularly since we did not meet anyone in this isolated part of the state. I wore the same New … Continue reading
Day 086 – 8/18/11 Dewey CG to Cisco Desert
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Distance = 16 Miles; People Met = 3 Almost everything of note on this day happened in Cisco; ironic, considering it’s a ghost town. Cisco originated for the railroad, pumping water up from the Colorado River for the use of … Continue reading
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Day 085 – 8/17/11 Takeout Beach to Dewey Bridge CG
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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
Day 080-84 8/12-16/11 Moab Area (long)
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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
Days 078-79 – 8/10-11/11 Green River to Route 191
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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
Days 074-77 – 8/6-9/11 Giles Townsite to Green River (long)
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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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