Reference 20 | Jackson A Flagg Ranch through Teton Center Punch High Route
Day 79, 7.1 miles.
This morning my parents and I had breakfast in the city on the recommendation of the friend and neighbor of Liz, Amberley. We had coffee at home and we met Steve, who built the beautiful house Liz and George finished building, which is where we stayed. I spent most of the morning and early in the afternoon editing videos while stretching. I packed a sandwich from another Amberley recommendation, sweet cheeks. My parents took me back to the path and got on the range of Tetons. Now I am using a new loan backpack 28L of exotic packages. Replaces the ultralight of Pa’lante that had been using, which has been slowing the use in the lower sewing from the middle of New Mexico. Pa’lante offered to send a new package, but wanted to try to run vest straps. This loan package is also an early version of a custom package made for Nick Fowler, who has the current PCT known current time. So far I really like all specific pockets, and I can access everything with the package on. The most efficient package is that you never have to take off. In the camp, I was sure there was an animal that moved in the forest around me. I turned on my lighthouse and I saw two eyes reflecting. I shouted to scare him, but these forests have many people walking for them, so unfortunately this animal did not fear me. He did not approach, so I ignored it and tried to sleep, but I kept moving around me. I was quite sure that it was a deer of his movement patterns. An hour later he came to my clear and I could see that it was a deer. I shouted that I was trying to sleep and could go to another place to eat? That worked and I fell asleep.
Day 80, 24.5 miles.
There were two parts until the day. Most of the day I spent on the Teton Crest Trail cruise, which is well established and very popular. I saw or spent 30 people in my first 4 hours of hiking. It was really special to be back on this path and even visited the exact camp in which I stayed four years ago. At that time I was so afraid of bears and sleeping only in the forest. I covered two days of what I walked four years ago in approximately 7 hours. Then, in Hurricane Pass, I left the path to start the Cross Country Teton Center Punch route that crosses the backbone of the Tetons range. I passed the mountain of the table and put my eyes in the crux of the Wigwam Traverse, which is an estimated ridiculin of 5.7 grade. I feel comfortable to class IV without protection, but class 5 enters the climbing grades. The Bridgelines are often worse than they are once you get there, but there was another class IV/V incomplete climbing to even approach the Quid. I didn’t want to lower that, get to the Quid and then slowly rescue on the class IV crest. I had service, so I called my sister who is a climber and asked if I thought it was a good idea to make a 57 -grade crest. No, she said. So that was all. I returned and diverted in the valley in the Teton Crest Trail to avoid the crux on the crest. All that terrible experience: focus, decision making, rescue and diversion, cost me approximately 7 hours, which is half a day of hiking. My total calorie production was 4500, which is more than any day I did in the winds. Normally I have a half day of food, but I started rationing because I don’t like being under pressure on this type of land. Just letting me hungry a little more before eating something. I will decide tomorrow if I have enough food to take the rest of Ridgeline North, or if I have to rescue myself through the Teton Crest Trail and take the way. But well, I obtained a great view of the crest and the tetones themselves and I am still in one piece.
See in 2025 from where I camped in 2021
Class IV/V Bring that I rescued from
The tetones
Day 81, 27.2 miles.
Yesterday’s setback cost me. Now I have little time and food after that detour. I walked to Lake Solitude, where Cross Country began to return to the crest, and I simply did not think it was worth risking it to run out of food and time. It would have been fifteen miles of slow travel of Cross Country, including a five -mile segment on the crest of Moran, which involves the IV class staggering and down of six peaks. I felt that with the time and food that had gone, I would be putting my main walk at risk if I went up to the crest crest; I could run out of time and have to recover miles in Idaho to reach the Canada border in time to start the great division path. I have heard that Idaho is a relatively easy hiking, but I did not want to depend on being able to compensate miles doing 40 miles there, since I was not sure how my ankle felt. He has not been injured, but I have not made a great mileage on the high routes. As an lesion due to excessive use, I analyzed many options for other ways in which I could cross the tetones without taking the way around Lake Jackson, but in the end I felt that the road was the best option. The Roadwalk is longer in approximately 15 miles, but it is much faster and would not risk being in the mountains without enough food. I would also give me a lot of time to catch up with editions, etc., while in the range of cells. I am discouraged, I will not be able to do ridgeline, but it will be there for later.
The decision I had to make today is why I always try to make sure you have good rescue options before trying something incomplete. I am discouraged, I had to fix, but waiting to link three high -route alternatives in a row without anything was definitely aggressive. I accidentally ran with my mother on the road because I was walking around the lakes. She took me to a shelter for a bath and a hot dinner, then continued on my way and camped on the road.
Day 82, 19 miles to the Flagg ranch, 7 miles outside.
Today I sent the road to Flagg Ranch and said goodbye to my parents before continuing my alternative to the CDT. I left the continental division when I turned from the Wind River mountain range to Gros Ventre and the Tetons, and now I am returning. In my walk I stopped a couple of brothers, one of whom follows me on Instagram and looks at the daily update videos I do. They recognized me from their car and stopped to offer me a peach, a bar and some battery. I really spend a lot of battery making the videos. In the last ten days or so since he entered the winds, elaborating a cohesive narrative out of the day has been really challenging. He had so many images, the edition was a bit overwhelming. And doing it day after day, even in my rest days, it is really creatively demanding, especially when I edit mainly while I walk or on a road with cars that constantly pass so that I can barely hear my audio. I constantly feel behind. Sometimes I wonder how quickly I would walk if I did not work on these while walking, or used so much battery that I have to stay in the city for longer to load, load or manage storage on my phone. I feel relieved of being able to unite him again and again. Seeing the brothers and reading the comments in these videos is a good reminder that all that work means something for someone. And they convinced me that I should really establish a Patreon. Thank you all for being here.
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