CDT + GDT: Lima a Leadore – The second act

Reference 23 | Lima, Mt a Leadore, ID

Day 90, 29.2 miles.

I feel that I really look tired. I am really tired. My friend Wheelz, whom I know about the PCT, says that each walk has three acts: the physical, the mental, the spiritual. I am in the second act now.

I have nothing physical to complain about, really. I have no blisters or pain of standing or injuries due to excessive use or pain. Hiking itself is hard and is hot and I have itching, but it is nothing compared to what I have already done. I feel a little … slow. As, okay, we did all difficult things. Now what? Idaho is beautiful. So why do I feel like that, so blank?

Honestly, it is a boredom. It is no longer new and exciting. Obviously, there is nothing difficult for you to face. This is the feeling of wanting to quit smoking. You think: What am I getting out of this now? I haven’t done enough? Not so many other things that I may be doing?

And yet, I chose to be here. And I have to choose it every day.

This is the most interesting part of a walk. What happens when your motivation dries but you still have to put in the miles, only in faith?

When you break that, it is when act three begins. The spiritual.

That is what I thought today while fighting the bites in the valleys and climbed up and down along the crest. The slopes are dotted with Artemisa, as if Seura was the Idaho landscape. They may seem gently inclined, but they don’t feel like it. The hikers call it: Altibajos without meaning.

But that is what the continental division means. And for that I enrolled.

Day 91, 35.5 miles.

I walked through another floss glove today. I need a sign that they can read that shouts a threat like: «You bit me, it’s your last meal.» I just hope you all do them a lot. Today I took an alternative that added mileage and was a bit slower, but it was supposed to have really great rocks. I was looking for some motivation. They seemed that someone had folded them. But the highlight for me ended up being wild strawberries in the fields along the stream. However, I couldn’t stop eating them for a long time because the flies were eating me. Later in the day I heard human voices. I have been here alone in the desert for a long time and my sensitivity to anything that sounds out of place is now very acute. I heard the voices from more than a quarter of a distance. I was incredulous; Not only a human, but multiple, so they can talk to each other? As I approached, I could distinguish two guys walking in my direction. «Whoa! Is that a true Nobo?» They called. «Yes, you true sobo?» I yelled at him. «We are,» they said, «and there is more behind us.» Wow. The flow of sobos is starting! I stopped to chat with the next three suns and one of them offered me a hug when I said that I had been only for so long. Something unique for the CDT is that it is often not someone’s first walk, so we launched into the years we had made other paths and tried to see if we had had any overlap between friends. A boy had walked the PCT with some people with whom I would meet in New Mexico. «Where are they now?» I asked. «In Lander,» he said. In total, today I saw six hikers: freighter, zach, weatherman, numbers, matcha and rocket. And two of them were women! That is more than I saw in all Wyoming, and I spent 26 days in Wyoming. I have seen other people, of course, in one -day cities and hikers in the most popular areas, but it is not the same as to run into one of theirs. It’s like being in a foreign country for a long time and then finding someone who speaks their language. The words are still falling and then you realize that you have been standing there with twenty pounds on the back during the last thirty minutes and you should really get going. He was the biggest mood lifter for a tired Nobo in the world to talk with some fresh face sobs. I ended up coming out more than 35 miles.

Day 92, 33 miles in Leadorae.

There is probably a reason why the CDT logo has an arrow. Sometimes, Blazes have to point it out in the right direction because there is no trace. In Wyoming in the comments about Farout, once I saw someone had written: «Classic CDT, I forgot to build a trace again.» This section is also like that. Most of the time there is no path or is a dirt road. What I want to know is, who is building these paths here and where do they think they are going? Are they only farmers accessing their cattle? The problem of having so many trips field trips, especially with high ups and downs, when you think you are going to walk on a path, is that the rhythm is unpredictable. The lawn is lumpy or you have to slide through artemis or miss a turn and you have to make additional miles back. He had organized a trip with someone who had offered help through the Internet, Jared, and his daughter Hannah. I worried that I was too late for them. «It is more important for us to help instead of a deadline to hit,» he said. They picked me up and took me to the city and brought fruits of their garden and lotion for my eruptions. I have really found the most pleasant people on the Internet. Some of them even agreed to help slide him to find or receive it: I would like to thank George, Emma, Maggie, Ian, Erin and Kaleena for helping him. Erin even got a cat puzzle because I said that the three main things that his friends and family, his cat and puzzle are. Each hiker of Sobo that I have met so far has seen slide along the way. I receive slide updates, but I like to obtain repeated confirmation of others that you are still out there. I will stay tonight at the Mustang Inn in Leadore and maybe there are 10 or more hikers. I have not been close to so many hikers from Pie Town, Nm on the 14th. One of them, Droobie, made me eggs in toast because everything in this small town is closed tonight. I’m looking forward to a bed.

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