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CDT Mapping Hike: Pettingell Divide to Berthoud Pass
It’s a pretty cold and windy night on the divide, but the morning brings ridge hiking as sweet as it comes. Shortly after this picture Jeremy and Bob startle a mountain goat that flies across the rocky terrain below us. Another tough climb takes us to Stanley Mountain. We try to find camping before Berthoud…
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CDT Mapping Hike: Bakerville to Pettingell Divide
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My version
(Congratulate me if I successfully make this post–it’ll be my first foray into the blogosphere….) On Sunday, 7/29 I drove Dylan to the trailhead he wanted to start out at around 9am. No, you don’t get a link to a map, a gps coordinate, or even specific information about what trailhead it was. It was…
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CDT Mapping Pre-hike: Beaver Reservoir to Monarch Lake
I’ve volunteered for the BACKPACKER Magazine CDT Mapping project as a team leader, and my first task is to meet my two team members at Monarch Lake. I figure it’s about 16 miles of hiking, but Sawtooth Mountain looks very tempting, and the trail is quite wiggly on the west side. The elevation profile ends…
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Book: The Wizard of the Crow / Ngugi Wa’Thiong’O
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Rain and lost phone
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Vedauwoo – Nautilus
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Vedauwoo – Jurassic Park / Lichen Lung
It’s hot, we have errands to run, and we’re not moving so fast. But we make it to Vedauwoo eventually and find Mark and Kate in a similar state at the ever-name-changing area Jurassic Park. Despite our laziness we enjoy a few routes: First Iteration 5.9+ There’s some hard slab climbing here if you try…
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Notre BAT
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Book: The Solace of Open Spaces / Gretel Ehrlich