Mark’s Photos #2
It was 2019, and I was on my second long section hike of the Continental Divide Trail, having hiked from Mexico to central Colorado the year before. I was now north of Rawlings, WY....
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The Grand Sawtooth Loop Trail
How hard can this be, I thought to myself. I’ll just type “Sawtooth Mountains” into my favorite search engine and pick the best result to jumpstart my research on this trail. But hold on,...
Mark’s Photos #1
My friend Dan was the impetus for Sunday’s blog about Thru-hiker Slang. It was fun to write and I appreciate his unintentional writing prompt. Dan has his own blog, over60hiker.wordpress.com, which is about his...
Thru-Hiker Slang
Inspired by Dan’s comment last week, I’ve decided to do a post on the terms thru-hikers use on the trail when chatting with other thru-hikers. This is not an exhaustive list, but I think...
Founder’s Favorite
Today I delve a little more deeply into the Santa Fe to Taos Trail. Since Pam Neely, the trail founder, has neatly laid out various itineraries in her guidebook, I have chosen her 12...
Santa Fe to Taos Trail
Also known as the SF2T, it is a trail that, unsurprisingly, starts at the main plaza in Santa Fe, NM, climbs up and over the 12,000-foot Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and, after 132 miles,...