A blog of my hiking and mountaineering. I have hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) and am working on climbing all of the Colorado 14ers.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Day 61- two months
I have been out on the trail 2 months. I have walked 1018 miles in 47 days of walking. I have been through 3 packs, 2 tents and 2 sleeping bags but my body is holding up and i am still enjoying it. Today I got up along fall creek which is huge and attempted to follow footprints all the way out of the snow and to Sonora pass 25 miles away. It took 13 hours but i made it in about 830. It was a pretty straightforward day and a special one because it was the longest stretch of walking I had without snow in week: 6 miles. When I got to the end of this stretch i got to the end of the canyon and knew how i had to climb the 1500 feet out. But I was having trouble finding the trail, so I went straight up the mountain. Sure enough the trail was there at the top and who knows how it got there. I raced the darkness across the crest of the mountains and finally came to where we decend to sonora pass. Lukily i could glissade (slide in my but down it and covered the 2 miles in 20 minutes. I set up camp at a snowy campground here and am ready for the 3 day push to echo lake.
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