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Distance = 22 Miles; People Met = 4 We made our way back up to the Great Western Trail. This time we found a trailhead and a trail that was maintained. We decided it was “safe” to follow the Great … Continue reading
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Distance = 20 Miles; People Met = 4 Today we deliberately took a route that was longer than the one recommended by the ADT, a rare occurrence for long distance backpackers. The ADT picks up the Great Western Trail in … Continue reading
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Distance > 13 Miles; People Met = 2 Another piece of advice that Randy Gould gave us was to go cross country essentially from where we camped by Antimony Creek to rejoin and ATV road on the other side of … Continue reading
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Distance > 13 Miles; People Met = 4 On our first day out of Antimony we suffered from too much information. If we listened only to Randy, whose ranch is along the route, we would have been fine. We ran … Continue reading
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Distance = 28 Miles; People Met = 2 This stretch took us through the Fishlake National Forest. We stopped at the Forest Service office in Beaver to get some information and a map before heading on. We learned two things … Continue reading
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
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Distance = 29 Miles; People Met = 1 Hah! We fooled the southerly winds today. We started out going south but veered more east. Meanwhile, the winds were more from the southwest than the south. We dealt with crosswinds rather … Continue reading
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Distance = 16.8 Miles; People Met = 4 We talked to 4 people today on an otherwise lonely road stretch of the ADT. The first was biker Sebastian from Munich, Germany. Neither of us saw the other in the distance. … Continue reading
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Distance > 14 Miles. People Met = 0 We’ve been enjoying walking with Barrett as we swap stories and life history. Barrett confirmed a decision I made as being the correct one. We took a detour away from the Western … Continue reading
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Distance = 73 Miles; People Met = 3 To be honest we met Carol and Al Drayton, the two owners of Blackrock Station (Ranch), the day before we started our big push along US 6 to Ely. We stopped in … Continue reading
