June 14, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 0.0 / 767.3 The bed at the San Juan Motel was wonderful and I slept until 7:30. I went down to the Motel breakfast and met Lynx, another CDT hiker. We talked about the last section and what he foresaw for the next section to Silverton. He had heard it was more of the same […]

June 13, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 11.3 / 767.3 I was up early again to beat the soft snow. It got colder last night than any of the nights before. My shoes were frozen and even though I had loosened the laces last night, I still had to fight to get them on. The trail from camp began ascending up the […]

June 12, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 18.6 / 756.0 My alarm went off at 5:00 am this morning and my body and legs were not ready to get up. I laid in bed a little longer snuggled up in my warm sleeping bag. I finally got up and started packing and got around and on the trail by 6:15. It didn’t […]

June 11, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 12.6 / 739.2 I was up early this morning again and on the trail before 6:00. I camped about 200 yards from Blue Lake and the trail wrapped around the side of the lake. As soon as the trail left the lake it began climbing up the canyon wall on a steep snow covered slope. […]

June 10, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 17.0 / 726.6 I set an alarm for 5am this morning. I wanted to get some time in while the snow was still hard. It froze last night so the snow was hard and the water was frozen on top. I had gotten off trail late yesterday and the trail was actually on the ridge […]

June 9, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 9.2 / 709.6 Despite trying I couldn’t sleep past 6:30 this morning. I got up and took a shower and started packing up all my gear. I took my time and checked out of the motel at 8:00. I have reservations to ride the steam locomotive back to Cumbres Pass where I can start back […]

June 7-8, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 0.0 / 700.4 I’m taking 2 zero days in Chama for a couple of reasons: 1) my sleeping pad has a leak that I repaired, but still leaks out enough that I have to reinflate a couple of times a night. Going into a high snow area I want to make sure I have a […]

June 6, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 6.8 / 700.4 It rained on-and-off until midnight last night. I woke up early to a lot of moisture on my gear. I wiped off what I could, packed up and was on the trail before 6:00am. The snow was much harder this morning. It supported my weight and I could hear it crunch underfoot. […]

June 5, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 18.1 / 693.6 I was up early this morning knowing that I might be walking through some snow and wanting to get an early start before the snow softens and causes me to posthole. I reached the Lagunitas Campground about 7:00 and met Walt who was packing up his gear. The Professor and Slytherin had […]

June 4, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 25.0 / 675.5 I slept great on my repaired sleeping pad last night. The temperature was 40 degrees this morning, but a heavy dew had covered everything and it felt much colder. I packed up and refilled my water bottles before leaving camp. The trail started with a gradual up toward a nearby pass. There […]