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Distance = 19.5 Miles; People Met = 0 Our last day in Utah is cause for tying up a few things, particularly since we did not meet anyone in this isolated part of the state. I wore the same New … Continue reading
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Day 086 – 8/18/11 Dewey CG to Cisco Desert
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Distance = 16 Miles; People Met = 3 Almost everything of note on this day happened in Cisco; ironic, considering it’s a ghost town. Cisco originated for the railroad, pumping water up from the Colorado River for the use of … Continue reading
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Day 085 – 8/17/11 Takeout Beach to Dewey Bridge CG
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Distance = 19.5 Miles; People Met = 8 This was a surprisingly good day for meeting people, offset at the end by another setback in our struggle to find a suitable route from Moab to Grand Junction. We fist met … Continue reading
Day 080-84 8/12-16/11 Moab Area (long)
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Distance = 25 Miles; People Met = 23 We spent 5 days in the Moab area. Two were rest days while we hiked only half days the other days. There were four major objectives to accomplish in Moab: 1) Catching … Continue reading
Days 074-77 – 8/6-9/11 Giles Townsite to Green River (long)
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Distance = 65 Miles; People Met = 14 OK, this will probably be one of our biggest “downer” posts. While traversing National Forests and Parks we were greeted with daily rain and thunderstorms. Now that we are road walking through … Continue reading
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Day 065 – 7/28/11 Otter Creek to Antimony!
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Distance = 7 Miles: People Met = 12 Horrors! We actually backtracked two miles today, something that long distance backpackers avoid like the plague. Antimony is the reason. Pie Town, New Mexico was our gold standard for trail towns before … Continue reading
Day 064 – 7/27/11 Circleville to Otter Creek SP
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Distance = 19 Miles; People Met = 12 We returned to road walking; my knees thanked me. It’s a good sign that they recover well from a day of torture. The scenery did not suffer in the least. We traveled … Continue reading
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Day 061 – 7/24/11 Pass Road to Beaver
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After a long drive back from the airport, arriving at Milford early morning, we went back to Penny’s Diner for some coffee to get us going. There we ran into a group of twenty or so young adults on a … Continue reading
Days 058-60 – 7/21-23/11 Wedding Rest Days
We flew back from Salt Lake City to JFK in order to attend a family wedding. As much as this hike is about humanity the best people to be with is family. We caught up with our three kids at … Continue reading
Day 057 – 7/20/11 Wah Wah Valley to Pass Road
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Distance = 28 Miles; People Met = 1 Most of the day featured no wind; I did not know that was possible. Whereas yesterday I thought 100 degrees was in the eighties, today felt in the nineties. Clearly, crosswinds are … Continue reading
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