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Distance = 22 Miles; People Met = 4 We made our way back up to the Great Western Trail. This time we found a trailhead and a trail that was maintained. We decided it was “safe” to follow the Great … Continue reading
Day 069 – 8/1/11 Sand Creek to Chriss Lake
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Day 068 – 7/31/11 Deep Creek to Sand Creek
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Distance = 20 Miles; People Met = 4 Today we deliberately took a route that was longer than the one recommended by the ADT, a rare occurrence for long distance backpackers. The ADT picks up the Great Western Trail in … Continue reading
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Day 067 – 7/30/11 Antimony Creek to Deep Creek
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Distance > 13 Miles; People Met = 2 Another piece of advice that Randy Gould gave us was to go cross country essentially from where we camped by Antimony Creek to rejoin and ATV road on the other side of … Continue reading
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Day 066 – 7/29/31 Antimony to Antimony Creek
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Distance > 13 Miles; People Met = 4 On our first day out of Antimony we suffered from too much information. If we listened only to Randy, whose ranch is along the route, we would have been fine. We ran … Continue reading
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Day 065 – 7/28/11 Otter Creek to Antimony!
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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
Day 064 – 7/27/11 Circleville to Otter Creek SP
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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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Days 062-63 – 7/25-26/11 Beaver to Circleville
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Distance = 28 Miles; People Met = 2 This stretch took us through the Fishlake National Forest. We stopped at the Forest Service office in Beaver to get some information and a map before heading on. We learned two things … Continue reading
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Day 061 – 7/24/11 Pass Road to Beaver
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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
Days 058-60 – 7/21-23/11 Wedding Rest Days
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 the wedding and later at home; we were comforted to learn that they all are doing well. Cindy’s nephew Patrick appears to be marrying a wonderful woman in Marisa Fontana.
Our flight arrived in NYC at 5:50 the morning of the wedding, leaving plenty of time to absorb New York City around the airport and at Grand Central Station. Everything was surreal in comparison to the norm of hiking the Utah desert. Ironically, the heat was worse in New York, being in the same hundred degree range but far more humid. Other than that there was not much to link the two worlds together. It was almost as if we were watching a fictitious B movie.
I trained for the wedding. By that I mean I pigged out for two days prior, stretching my stomach for all the delicious wedding food. I was not disappointed with either the quantity or quality of food, but in the end I felt like I had betrayed my body. I had fine tuned my body to survive well in the desert, taking frequent but small quantities of food and water at the time. By building back up my fat reserves I knew I was building up my body’s demand again for water as well. I’m sure I will be paying for the transgression for a few days of hiking on my return.
I have had a problem with a swollen left foot for virtually the whole hike. Of late the swelling goes down with hiking, presumably as blood gets pumped through the body. Elevating my foot at night helps out as well. During the three days rest neither remedy occurred and my foot grew disturbingly large. I may need to take more aggressive measures to keep the swelling under control.
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Day 057 – 7/20/11 Wah Wah Valley to Pass Road
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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
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