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 […]

June 3, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 22.8 / 650.5 I had a terrible nights sleep last night. My air mattress was leaking and I wound up laying on the ground about every hour. I would blow it up and it would be down the next hour. I got up as the sunlight came out and was on the trail about 6:30. […]

June 2, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 20.7 / 627.7 I was up early, but took some extra time getting around this morning. There was a heavy dew last night and everything was wet and had to be wiped down before packing away. I also bought a breakfast burrito in Abiquiu last night and warmed it up in the microwave in the […]

June1, 2023Miles Today/ Total: 14.5 / 607.0 I was up on on the trail early wanting to make it to Ghost Ranch around mid-day. The trail continued down through Chama River Canyon and I stopped about 2 miles in an filled up my water bottles at a spring fed stock tank. It would be about 13 miles until the next […]