August 11th Last night we debated getting up early and taking the 5:30 bus and getting to Copper Mountain around 7:45 vs Ubering to the […]

August 8th It was quite chilly this morning. Around 7 I looked at my thermometer and noticed it wasn’t quite forty degrees yet. I slept […]

August 7 A week on trail today. Sleeping in a campground last night included the luxurys of a pit toilet, freshly pumped water by the […]

August 6th We both woke up this morning with headaches and Jodie had a cough that she reports feels like a cold. I brought decongestants […]

August 5th This has been the toughest day so far. We started climbing right from the start. My headlamp died while I was packing up […]

August 4th We decided we liked the 4 am start so well are making it routine.  Today was Jodie’s birthday. It was 5:10 am, she […]

August 2nd We hiked just over 11 miles today and are camped 7300. We set our alarms for 0400 to get some miles in before […]

August 3rd We awoke at 0400 as planned. I heard the pop and the air whooshing out of Jodie’s sleeping pad. I immediately pulled my […]

Colorado Trail, Day 1 Well it’s still August first but we’ve lived a little today since I last wrote. It’s 4:29 in the afternoon. I […]