CDT Joy: Founding in Yellowstone

Day 53: 15.9 miles

The highlight: Sleep! Star Star Geyser. Shoshone Lake.

Today was the first day of the path without having to get up and move in a long time. Since the itinerary is established, we will only be walking 16 miles today, so there is no need to leave early. I started packing my team around 7 am and the group left the camp at 8 to walk towards the Star Geyser Star located about 0.3 miles outside the path. The geyser explodes every 3 hours or so and has an important and minor rash. We could see the eruption less than 8:15 am lasting 2-3 minutes. We sat close and wait to see how epic the main eruption would be after seeing the little girl at this time.

The oldest began around 8:45 am and lasted more than 20 minutes with a similar epic sensation as an old faithful but without crowds and much more. It was great to have time to spend more than an hour being a tourist while he was still in this bigger goal through the walk.

After the epic show, I returned to the camp to tear down my store. He had left it dry in the air, since he was still wet by the rain storm last night. The path went next to several smaller speech and I could see the Minute man erupting as rounded as the corner of the path. The landscape looked like another planet with a lot of white earth with white scabs and bubbling water and steam wells from cracks and holes on the ground.

From there we walked to Shoshone Lake and have lunch on the rocky beach. We met a ranger in a canoe that warned about some active fires in Yellowstone, but let us know that none is close to the CDT for now. He said that with all ray storms, new fires appear almost daily.

After lunch, we had an 8 mile walk to the other end of the lake. There was an uphill climb, but nothing compared to what we have seen in the previous sections of this walk.

I came to camp around 5 pm and had dinner on the beach with everyone. I began to feel sleepy and tired and headed to bed after eating, while everyone else enjoyed the view of the lake and saw a storm rolling towards the camp from the lake.

The rain began around 7:30 pm and rained from time to time throughout the night. I was glad to have my store already configured before the storm and that I was already relaxed and sleeping when the Thunder woke me up.

Day 54: 17.9 miles

The highlight: Alternative geyser. Village subsidies. Lake of the heart. Bonus miles.

During the night I woke up with a headache and took some medication before returning to sleep. I woke up around 5 in the morning of other campers packed equipment and decided to lie down a little more before moving. My head hurt after packing my bags and felt stunned even after sleeping more than 10 hours last night.

This morning I was in the upper 30 and enjoyed a hot matcha drink in the food area before taking off for the walk. It rained last night and there was a cold and humid dew in all the pastures and plants covered with weeds on the path. My dried warm socks wet instantly with ice water and the new water that entered my shoes from the dew of the plant felt like small daggers in my feet. Finally, my feet were numb from the cold, so the pain of dagas decreased, but I was being careful with the placement of my foot. I was also glad to have rain pants that helped keep the cold out of my legs.

Leaving Camp Midnight and I took an alternative called Lewis Channel Trail that went down the river and offered more picturesque views. The path was 2 miles longer than the official CDT, but it was worth it and took us to the road around 9 am, which is a better time to get hooked with the highest traffic.

We obtained a trip from a great Texas couple who was taking a vacation and kindly left us in Grants Village. We refused in the general store and take a breakfast and coffee sandwich in coffee. I still felt like hot garbage in the city and my thoughts about this walk in the morning were more negative than usual. I have not finished I do not feel very good day after day, first with knee pain, then stomach pain, then headache, and all the time I feel tired and little energy. It has been really good that everyone I have been walking is taking it calmly through Yellowstone, so I’m not stopping anyone taking my time and resting here.

After leaving the general store, we found a hiker who gave us the magic of the path of a backpacking meal and a free shower coupon. We go to the shower area and dry our team in the sun. After my shower, sitting in the sun off the road, a kind stranger gave us another shower coupon and midnight shower. I was able to get a soda and gatorade from the store and that, along with the few hours of rest, helped recover my energy. We have lunch at a picnic table and then we started the walk towards the road to return to the road.

We ended up walking around a mile to where the road to subsidies met with the main entrance path that would take us to the Heart Lake path. After about 10 minutes, a former Walker at and Azt called Od who left us at the beginning of the path and continued our path.

The path from Heart Lake was cruise and had several incredible geyers. At one point there was an alternative that joined the CDT and took you about several of the geysers. It was such a great Alt, however, it remained less than the CDT and took time to navigate.

Dairy blue lake in the geyser field

Once back on the road, we passed through Witch Creek and stopped for a break. The stream was hot since the water from the hot springs and geyseres is mixed with cold water. I put my feet for a few minutes until they were red lobster red, then kept walking towards Heart Lake.

The path walked along the lake and then returned to a forest and midnight, and I had dinner and looked at the sunset from the lake before heading to camp at night.

Day 55: 25.2 miles

The highlight: Leave Yellowstone.

I woke up and I could see the sunrise in pink tones while preparing hot coffee for breakfast. It was cold this morning and walked with my rain pants, wool and swollen vest with gloves and an amateur on my ears for heat. These remained in almost 3 hours of hiking until the sun left high enough in the sky to heat me.

Heart Lake morning view

I saw the unicorn UByling again today! He has one more night on the path on Heart Lake before completing his walk. I had to chat with him a little more and then I followed my way.

Unicorning Unicorn is about to finish your CDT Trek

As fast as the sun came out, the weather turned hot. Parts of the path today were exposed in meadows and I could feel the heat that radiated me. I had taken a break around 10:30 am in a stream and with a slight uphill up when I stopped to lunch around 2 pm to eat at another water crossing, I was too hot. I tried to cook wet my excursion shirt, but it would dry quickly. I also wet my had and my kool handkerchief and wrapped it around my forehead for the headache that began to appear.

The afternoon rhythm was slower when I took off my backpack at each water crossing to take my clothes again and continue. My headache began to decrease when I approached the camp at night.

Tonight for dinner I enjoyed a Pad Thai backpacker meal that I picked up in my last resume and some Reese’s Fast break break bars for the desert. In the AT I loved trying all the different types of reese bars and sweets and today’s experience made us want to do that again. At dinner the sun began to wear and was cold again. I think I will deal with a heating hand tonight.

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