Category Archives: Continental Divide Trail

Miles hiked: 18.2 Total Milage: 123.15 Location: Burro Mountain Homestead Today I woke up around 5am. I was pretty cold last night and I noticed my sleeping bag had a layer of frost on it in the morning. I packed up as quickly and quietly as I could and got on trail around 5:30 am.ContinueContinue reading “Day 8: Burro Mountain Homestead”

Miles hiked: 20.3 Total Milage: 104.95 Location: Guthook mile 103.6 Today I woke up around 7am. I set my last blog posts to post each day while I’m out hiking, updated facebook and got out of bed to pack up my things. My friend Pop Rocks gave me a call before we left. It’s soContinueContinue reading “Day 7: Mile Marker 100”

Miles hiked: 0 Total Milage: 84.6 Location: Econolodge Lordsburg, New Mexico Today was a zero day! I had so much stuff to do. First we started off with laundry and I had my left over mexican food for breakfast. Then we planned out the route to silver city before I went to the grocery storeContinueContinue reading “Day 6: Zero # 1”

Miles Hiked: 14 Total Milage: 84.64 Location: Econolodge, Lordsburg Today I woke up without an alarm around 5am. I did some stretches and packed up quietly before leaving camp around 6am. My goal was to get to the water cache seven miles away before everyone else so I could take a long break before walkingContinueContinue reading “Day 5: Lordsburg!”

Miles Hiked: 18.3 Total Milage: 70.6 Location: Wash with Free Fall, Itchy, Jenga, Revolt, and Rad Today I woke up Incredibly well rested and well fed for the first time on the trail. Jenga, Rad and I all left camp around 7am. We passed Itchy and Free Fall camping in a wash about a mileContinueContinue reading “Day 4: Washes”

Miles hiked: 16.1 Total Milage: 52.3 Location: Wash with Jenga and Rad This morning I woke up pretty late. Last night it was so windy I found myself wondering if there were tornado warnings. My tent was flapping very loudly all night and I was on the ground again so I hardly slept at all.ContinueContinue reading “Day 3: Sore Ankles”

Miles Hiked: 19 Total Milage: 36.25 Location: “Wash” Last night I got a hole in my sleeping pad almost immediately so I spent the entire night on the hard ground which was VERY frustrating considering it was the first day of a five day stretch. The morning started with a 0.5 minimum walk back toContinueContinue reading “Day 2: Struggle Bus”

Miles Hiked: 17.25 Total Milage: 17.25 Location: Trail Junction off mile 16.7. Commadore Road. This morning we all woke up around 5am and started to get ready for the trail. I took a shower, ate a muffin for breakfast, put on my hiking clothes, and got a call from Luke. Camp Crazy Cook shuttle pickedContinueContinue reading “Day 1: Crazy Cook!!”