Steady is NoBo on the CDT
It sounds like the official southern terminus hasn’t changed much:
Within the first hour I had drawn blood on both my hand and foot from thorns! One thorn actually went straight through the sole of my new shoes and poked my foot!
It takes one day to get excited about a cow trough:
I couldn’t find the first well, but had three liters so wasn’t too concerned, The next four windmills were all turned broken or dry, so I made my three liters last until evening when I found great water –right from the well pump spigot instead of out of the cattle trough.
I too had problems with map accuracy in the early days:
It is handy having three sets of maps, plus the GPS. Many are obsolete –for example, two didn’t even have highway 113 on them!
Ann got a wound from a yucca plant on this section that bothered her for years. Steady got away with:
Lots of cuts and scratches on the legs, but only about twenty over an inch long, and only two that are of concern. One is a cactus spine puncture about 1/4 inch deep that I could not make bleed, and the other is a nasty scratch. I’ll monitor each for infection.
Best of luck Steady, I’m jealous already!
