Author Archives: Hailey

The goal today was getting to Lima. Last night we picked our campsite knowing that even if it sucked, hey, we’d be in town today. It turned out that the wind flipped 180 degrees in the night, which turned my … Continue reading →

Today’s journal could be called “Cow Rant”. Just a warning. First though, we had a great morning walking the divide in relative flatness. Then we got to a great spring and hiked on nice forested trail til lunch. Things started … Continue reading →

Tough morning today after yesterday’s rollercoaster. We both had trouble getting in gear, so it was slow for sure. Then we got to a spot where you could summit Cottonwood Peak (11,024ft) relatively easily and come out on trail on … Continue reading →

Slept a bit poorly due to a windy night combined with scratchy grass making weird noises on my tent. It was good to be off my feet either way though. In the morning we started climbing on the divide with … Continue reading →

As we were packing up a grey fox trotted by with something in it’s mouth. 15 feet away. For some reason I thought foxes were shy. Didn’t have time to get a picture sadly… We had a great climbing morning … Continue reading →

I forgot to mention that we saw the most evil bull last night. All black but a mixed white/black face like am inkblot. Reminded me a lot of Rorshack from the comic/movie Watchmen. Both Chance and I got our warmer … Continue reading →

Had a very relaxing weekend with Hailey overall but it had to come to an end finally. We got up early to get to the PO when it opened and then hit the road. We were on trail by 10:30 … Continue reading →

Zero day in Dillon! We actually got up really early and headed over to Leadore to catch the post office and pick up our boxes from there. We decided we won’t be resupplying there and will just carry extra food … Continue reading →

Chance woke me up at 5:45am as he was trying to get up and beat the bugs out of camp. He somewhat succeeded, I totally failed but still was hiking before the sun was up. I got some great pictures … Continue reading →