Day 193-Elk Mountain
CDT day 21- I am going to start structuring my posts a little different. I took this idea from Kyle Rohrig who is currently hiking the...
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Day 192-Leadore
CDT day 20-Leadore is what they used to call a one horse town. Or maybe a no horse town. There are no stoplights and maybe one stop sign....
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Day 191-All Good
CDT day 19-I have graduated from deer to today having a nice bull elk in my camp in the morning. We traded looks before he ran off into...
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Day 190-Leg day
CDT day 18-For me every day is leg day. It was a surprisingly warm night and a pleasant morning. I saw deer, grouse and a trail crew...
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Day 189-connections
CDT day 17-I slept soundly in a dark bunkhouse with no distractions and woke up feeling much better. Elevation may play a role in me...
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Day 188 -hurdles
CDT day 16-I practiced my hurdling in the spirit of the Olympics today. At points there were constant logs laying across the trail. When...
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Day 187-the elk
CDT day 15-Today was monumental. The Continental Divide Trail is broken into 6 segments and today I completed the first one. At the same...
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Day 186-Anaconda Pintler
CDT day 14-I have already been on the continental divide trail for 2 weeks. Wow time flies when you are having fun. Like yesterday, much...
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Day 185-Hail
CDT day 13-I woke up surrounded by cows and began the descent down to the road I would be all too familiar with. I have been known to...
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Day 184-three for three
CDT day 12-It seems thunderstorms are a normal part of life and I will quit emphasizing them so much. I try to check the weather when I...
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Day 183-Sprinting from thunder
CDT day 11-I had a great day going. The weather was cool with some clouds. I had 30 miles in by 3 but then the severe thunderstorms hit....
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Day 182- Running from Thunder
CDT day 10-The window was tiny and the thunder was immense. I was moving as fast as I could to stay under the white clouds and away from...
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Day 181-Lincoln
CDT day 9- I had no agenda. I slept in, had breakfast and grabbed my resupply package and had an overall very relaxing morning in town....
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Day 180-Thirsty
CDT day 8-I want everyone to take a moment to smile right now. I don’t care if it’s your worst day of best, give it a smile and feel the...
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Day 179-Horse Lullaby
CDT day 7-I have been hiking for exactly 6 months and have covered about 5,400 miles in that time. It feels like I have been hiking for...
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Day 178-Chinese wall
CDT day 6-It is so cold in the mornings. It is dropping to the 20s overnight only to warm up into the 70s and 80s during the day. My...
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Day 177-Flathead River
CDT day 5-At the end of the day yesterday I was in a bit of a funk. The exhaustion of walking through a burn area, with no views and...
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Day 176-Burn
CDT day 4- Imagine for half your day every ten steps you had to step over a log. It’s not bad for a few minutes or maybe even an hour but...
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Day 175-Triple Divide
CDT day 3-Even after over 10k miles of hiking across 20 states I still get to see new animals. Today I finally saw a wild big horned...
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Day 174-Piegan Pass
CDT day 2-Twenty eight miles is all the national park is letting me do today so I took full advantage of the entire day. I slept in as...
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