June 25 Mileage: 25 961.5 miles hikes I stay up way too late in the dark hotel room scrolling on instagram but then finally drift off and sleep like a tired rock, earplugs stuffed into my ears. When I wake it's 7 a.m. and everyone is already up- Track Meat, MeHap and Spark are sitting … Continue reading CDT day 52: fresh legs!

June 24 Mileage: zero You're not gonna believe this, but... in the morning we pack up slow, imbibe caffeine, share a box of capn' crunch w crunch berries and a box of peanut butter capn' crunch among the three of us, along with a carton of almond milk, and then hitch back to Rodgers pass … Continue reading CDT day 51: F it, let’s take a zero in Lincoln

June 23 Mileage 11 936.5 miles hiked Here's what happens: we wake up early in our beautiful meadow on the ridge where we camped amongst the tiny flowers: it's cold and I don't have enough fuel to make hot tea. I have to save it for my dinners. Only a couple more days until Helena, … Continue reading CDT day 50: and then we were tired

June 22 Mileage: 30 925.5 miles hiked The cold comes in and the condensation descends like a ghost- I wake up in a damp sleeping bag and stare at the stars, unable to fall back asleep. What time does dawn come? There are no words to describe my exhaustion today. Not enough sleep and a … Continue reading CDT day 49: one side Atlantic, one side Pacific

June 21 Mileage 25 895.5 miles hiked I'm bored of writing about hiking. Is that ok to say? Are you guys bored of reading about it? Benchmark Ranch is a log cabin in the woods. We walk there, sit at a picnic table in the sun and organize our resupplies while the flies land on … Continue reading CDT day 48: Benchmark ranch

June 20 Mileage 30 870.5 miles hikes I can't fall asleep for all the wild emotions- fears, vulnerabilities, insecurities... like a bad high, like when I would try and smoke pot when I was a teenager. Every possible thought going to some dark place. The way all things might possibly go awry, or how they … Continue reading CDT day 47: connecting to the moon and all that shit

June 19 Mileage: 28 840.5 miles hiked It's cold in the morning and I sit in my sleeping bag, heating water for tea. I love making tea in the morning. Love it! How did I ever hike before I had a stove to make hot tea in the morning?! Today: we're in the Bob Marshall … Continue reading CDT day 46: The Bob is ok, I mean I GUESS

June 18 Mileage 31 820.5 miles hikes I have a dream that I went to sleep on a steep slope with my head pointed downhill and when I wake up I realize this is true. Also the claustrophobic mosquito net that hangs inside of my tarp (I have a new zpacks tarp now, it is … Continue reading CDT day 45: horse trails and grizzly tracks

June 17 Mileage 24 789.5 miles hiked I plan to start hiking early, really I do- but it's just so nice to sleep in until 7:30 in my bed in the hostel and then there's the breakfast place next door... by the time Track Meat, Spark and I are actually walking out of East Glacier … Continue reading CDT day 44: feeling tired in a real bummer of a forest

June 16 Mileage: zero Zeros... sometimes they just happen. And sometimes they happen at the perfect moment, because a critical mass of nobo turned sobo hikers happen to be in town, and you get to meet... all of them. The trail feels young! We're all just newly minted sobos, starting out. The trail is new! … Continue reading CDT day 43: zero in East Glacier