Category Archives: Trail Magic

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

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Day 072 – 8/4/11 Notom Ranch Rest Day

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Distance = 0 Miles; People Met = 4 … continued from yesterday. Yesterday, we thought the world was our oyster!  People, Powerade and pavilions all showing up when we need them … along with absolutely astounding scenery.  We felt like … Continue reading

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Day 066 – 7/29/31 Antimony to Antimony Creek

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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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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

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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

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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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Day 056 – 7/19/11 Unnamed Summit to Wah Wah Valley

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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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Day 052 – 7/15/11 Cave Lake CG to Osceola Road

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Distance > 18 Miles; People Met = 0 The highlight of the day was getting to Cooper Summit (really a pass) in time for a break and to cheer Brian Starks on as he came over the pass during his … Continue reading

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