Where is the trail?
In keeping with my recent posts of random trail memories, I present yet another tidbit from the trail. I return to the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) once again. This time, a musing on what...
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Mark’s Photo’s- 29
The year was 2020. It was August, and I should have been finishing up the last 400 miles of the Continental Divide Trail. In the spring, plans had been made and tickets bought. I...
Pie & Toasters along the CDT
I recently came across some photos I took of a quirky place on the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). I think the place and its story are worthy of a post. So I wrote the...
Mark’s Photos- #28
The day started at 3:55 a.m. Cappuccino, The Professor, and I were staying in a motel in East Glacier, MT., and we needed to get up to St. Mary Lake before the road closed...
Mark’s Photos- #27
It was late March of 2017, and I was well along on my hike of the Arizona Trail, or AZT, as thru-hikers call it. I had hiked from the Mexican border through the desert...
Marks’s Photos- #26
Today there are two photos from the archive. In August of 2008, our family went backpacking in the Weminuche Wilderness along the Continental Divide in Colorado. With elevations for much of the trip above...
2 responses to “Marks’s Photos- #26”
The blue backpacks beneath the deep blue sky. Sweet juxtaposition. Are you son and daughter backpackers to this day? I’m sure pesky jobs get in the way much of the time, yes? Camping and hiking with our three kids when they were young set them up for being adult nature folk.
Carrie and Will continue to like outside activities. Will is a cyclist and day hiker. Carrie, her husband and their three young boys are into car camping, sports, and Scouting adventures. I think, as you mentioned, jobs and the obligations of adult life have decreased their opportunities for backpacking. Will and his wife have just moved to Colorado, so it will be interesting to see if things change for them as far as camping.