CDT Joy: Departure and Monarch Pass

Day 85: 24.4 miles

The highlights: spectacular views

It was a cold morning again with a layer of frost that covers the outside of my store. I motivated myself to move telling myself that I just needed to boil some hot water to have coffee and then lay down. But after moving, I was more awake and motivated and deflated my sleeping pad and packed my belonging with things of things

I wrapped my coffee in my sleeping bag before saving everything in my backpack and outing. I started in all my layers even though I knew I was uphill. I did not take off the layers until the sunlight came out on the mountains to warm up.

I met midnight in Cottonwood Pass 2 miles in my day and we talked with a boy who enjoyed coffee near the pass. I also met Super Nudes here and after a little conversation we continue on the walk. Yesterday I felt much better and felt that I had energy to climb the multiple passes for the day.

Also in the morning they passed through two mountain cyclists who were traveling in this section of the path. I was so impressed in the sections of the irregular rock and the steep curves that had the ability and aptitude to make these mountain passes. It also seemed very funny.

I stopped for lunch for a wind protected stream for shrubs and put my tent to dry. I usually do not care to have a damp carp at night, but now that the weather is below freezing and that becomes cold and makes me colder, I will try to be better drying things when I have the sunlight to do it.

After lunch, I checked another pass and enjoyed several spectacular views as noted in the Farout application. Autumn is here and the mountains were crazy colors of red, orange, yellow, green and brown.

At the end of the day, the path went to an ancient railroad road that became a path. It was great to see how nature was slowly becoming and growing along the way.

Midnight and I settled near a water source and had dinner before we go to bed. I gave myself a hand heater and put that in my comforter to get more heat during the night.

At night, I organized a camp next to a dismantled railroad road and had dinner during the sunset.

Day 86: 12.3 miles

The highlights: butterfly house. Dinner at exit.

Midnight and I left the camp at 7 am and walked a little more on the old railway road before uploading.

Once we were above Telloine, I took my rhythm and sailed through the miles. I arrived at the Boss Lake parking icon in Farout and I didn’t see any place for cars to be stacked. I waited at this crossing during midnight, since this was the crossing from which you would walk to the butterfly house, where we planned to download our packages and take a hitch to loosen another 10 miles.

I waited there for about 20 minutes and worried that she could be ahead since I took the path of the red line and there was a dirt road that I could have taken in her place that was more steep but shorter.

Indeed, she was waiting for me in the real parking area of ​​0.1 miles later and thinking about me and that I could have continued walking to the butter house.

We laughed and, on our walk, we decided that we would end up walking for the day and wearing the time until the afternoon to shower and wash our clothes before Ghost Pepper arrived in the afternoon and we would take a departure to eat.

I took a private room and midnight scored the caterpillar, an RV painted purple inside, like its private space for the night. I really wanted to have time to edit and publish blog posts, but Internet was too slow to let me upload photos, so I will have to save that for another day.

We met with other hikers who made the path of Colorado and it was fun to see new hikers with the emotion of refineing team and learning here. I chatted a little and then before I realized, it was the 3 PM and Ghost Pepper picked us up and we went to exit. We went to Moonlight Pizza and Brewery, a fun coincidence, since the show used to call Midnight the Trail Name Moonlight.

After dinner, we headed next to an arcade and we played a round of pool and shuffleboard. From there we went to a roof bar to take something and a second meal of buffalo cauliflower, french fries and a huge slice of berry cake.

From there, we return to the butterfly house for the night. In my room I had a small panic attack, since I had a lot of anxiety to be in the city instead of being on the way and trying to find a way of making plans tomorrow. I was finally calming my breathing and then I found my way to sleep.

Day 87: 13.0 miles

The highlight: Monarch Pass. Dinner with the friends of the path!

Today, the plan is to make a lazy package from Monarch Pass back to Boss Lake and then go to the departure city to replenish, dinner with some of my friends, and then one night at a good hotel. When I looked last night, I could not find any hotel room available at the exit due to a music festival in the city, but this morning a room was opened in the Hampton Inn and I hooked it even though it was more expensive than what I normally try to pay for a room.

Before going to walk, I had some time in the morning to paint a wooden disc with my path. The Butterfly House shelter hit them on the roof so that everyone sees who has gone through the place.

Make art with my path of path!

Midnight, Ghost Pepper, and I conducted at the beginning of a path to a half mile along the way and parked the car. Then we went to the side of the road to get our thumbs for a hitch for Monarch Pass.

The first car we saw stopped not a minute after reaching the road and turned out to be someone in the shelter that led to a mountain cyclist to the pass. We enter and take the short 7 -minute trip to Monarch Pass.

From the walk we cross the road and walk at the monarch ski resort. The first miles of the day were in the complex and followed the ski paths. We took photos with some of the signals and also obtained some great mountain views.

Monarch pass ski resort

Sign of the Ski Station path

From the complex we spent most of the day on the tree line walking along the ridge line. He got cold and windy and put on the wind shirt but wanted gloves. They were inside my backpack in a dry bag and did not want to take the time to stop and exploit my package to get them, so I suffered with the tips of my fingent fingers.

Dark clouds in the exposed crest line

There were dark clouds that formed ahead, but fortunately the weather remained. Ghost Pepper saw his first Pika today and we could enjoy a good lunch with a view. I packed a cheese and cookie lunch and had some mixtures of paths and fruit snacks.

Going to the north today was the correct call, since we had a more gradual climb to the mountain peaks and then a long descent back to where we parked the car.

From the car we go to exit and Walmart for a replenishment. I tried to find base layers, since it is usually around or below freezing every night and my summer simply does not cut them. I was not lucky, so I will bring my Vellón Mellie dress or wait to find something in one of the city’s outdoor stores.

After obtaining food during the following 100 miles and a 4 -day stretch, we headed to the simple shelter so that midnight will be recorded and then walk to a local outdoor store to buy fuel. This store had base layers but only in XL size. From there, we walk to the side to gather friends for dinner.

Last year I wook Wonder Woman on the Trail of the Apalaches. We gathered around the NOC and walk around the other through the smokey’s and with Damascus. There, she walked with orphans and fogs and were approximately half a day ahead until the speed in the Shenondoahs decreased.

At dinner I learned about the recently completed PCT walk of Haze, and what Wonder Woman has been to live in Denver. We chatting on how I plan to move there post trail and what would be 14 years of hiking.

Get together with friends from hikers on exit

After dinner, Ghost Pepper and I went to the hotel and I did some logistics planning for the next section of Trail. I had a good internet and made some blogs before going to bed around 9 pm Midnight went to the music festival and scored a free bracelet to dance all night.

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