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Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Chile & Argentina

Here is a link to my friends blog detailing our three month trek in South America.
Photos include famous stuff like Torres Del Pine, Tierra Del Fuego, and Fitz Roy.

Probably the most memorable bits:
-trekking through lava flows created by the 2011 eruption of Volcan Pueyhue;  40 mph winds filled with ash, visibility was almost nothing, we would stumble to the edge of chasm, gaze down, and have no idea how deep it was:) Had to use GPS/compass to navigate our way.
-living in a tiny hut on a glacier for five days crammed with 12  people, waiting for a storm to pass--

Lots of nice photos on his blog
Snowfall in Tierra Del Fuego
Poking my way across a glacier

CDT

 So I walked into Canada on September 5th.  To see all the places from Mexico to Canada along the Continental Divide was pretty amazing.

In the New Mexico desert always on the hunt for the next water source(cow troughs mostly)
In the Colorado San Juan mountains struggling to make 20 miles per day in the snow and altitude.
In Wyoming the Wind River Range is possible the best mountains I've seen, and I've seen many
In Montana crushing out its 900 miles with my friends SweetAs and Aquaman.
And then walking into Canada with Balls and Sunshine, whose journal you can read if interested

My first Grizzly bear encounter was about 10 miles from the monument that marks the US/Canada border. Only saw three bears on this trail, half as many as on the PCT.

 Here are a few pictures, nothing can really capture a 4.5 month/3000 mile hike, but this will have to do

Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range
SweetAs and I in the Wind River Range


Climbing up to the top of the Divide
Fetching water from a cow tank in New Mexico

Hiking with Breeze in Burglar across the wasteland around Lordsburg, NM
Grapple and Thunder along the CDT in southern Colorado

 Another hiker this year kept a detailed blog of her hike. Her name is Wired and she was a few days behind me for most of the trail(until Montana).  You can find her blog here.  It has tons of pictures and is high quality.

CDT

 Hiking the Contential Divide Trail(CDT) for the next 4-5 months. It is a 3,000 mile trail running from the US/Mexico Border in New Mexico to the US/Canada border in Montana.

 I'm starting April 20th at Crazy Cook, NM.  Will walk across New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, and some of Idaho.

Pacific Crest Trail

 I was gone for a really long time.

 Hiked the Pacific Crest Trail(PCT) from Mexico to Canada, started May 1st, ended on Oct 9th.

It was the best time I've ever had, and along the way I met some great people.

 Now back to what is commonly called the real world...

 Just a few images from the entire 2650 mile trail--

Wilson, my soccer ball-- he lasted 800 miles
One of many raging creeks in the Sierras



Muir Hut 

One of the 10 or so passes in the Sierras

 Southern California, not just a Desert after all

 The monument by the Mexican border

 Eagle Rock 

 We are descending into Tuolumne Meadows