CDT Joy: Lima as beans

Day 44: 7.3 miles

The highlights: Lima, Mt. Cena at the grill and living room.

I slept this morning and found a small amount of frost in my store when I woke up. That explains why I didn’t feel so cold in my sleeping bag and in all my layers. It seems that I will collect some heater by hand in the city for the next section in case it is literally frozen overnight.

In the camp I made a cup of hot coffee to heat and, like magic, my fuel can be emptied just when the water began to boil! This is the second small fuel can of the path, since I usually only make a boiling for dinner at night. Now I also have an execution list in my head of all non -food items that I need to collect and add mentally to the list.

Today’s short walk was a dirt road from the camp to the interstatal and then next to a road in front for several miles before walking under an underground step. There was a cell service there, so I called the Beaverhead motel to see on a ferry. Unfortunately, the owners were not available until 11 am and were only 9:30 AM circle and tried a hitch from the road.

In about 20 minutes, a truck stopped to offer a walk, and just when we walked a second car stopped saying that they saw us too late and returned to see if we needed a walk. It was such a kind and reflective gesture, but we continued to the first vehicle that stopped.

The trip to Lima took only a few minutes in a vehicle, but it would have taken another half of the day to walk. They left us at the service station and headed through the street to Jan’s breakfast, where I ate a western tortilla and a blueberry pancake. From there we crossed the street again to get to the motel and register and obtain our refueling boxes. The rooms were still being delivered and were not ready for another 2 hours, so I spent time updating with friends of trails and calling the family home along with going to the convenience store to complement my refueling.

Now that I have had the opportunity to know the groups of people that I am walking around, it turns out that I am walking around other Trek bloggers! Mamacita and snacks for young children

Once the room was ready, I showered and washed socks in the bathtub while I was cleaning. Black silt and earth come from the two pairs of stinking socks throughout the 10 -minute shower. Even with adding soap and sounding them, I could never make clear water. I thought for myself about how filth there would have been the rest of my hiking clothes if I had not made these bad boys prevent.

The laundry was easy since the hotel will be washed and dried and will return them to the room for a flat rate of $ 10. As the laundry was being done, I was trapped in the telephone tasks now that there is Wifi: Load blogs, make a photo backup, download music and podcasts, plan the next section for distance and water availability.

In a short time, it was time to eat again! I made reservations for the local grill called peat for 5 pm before starting the path, this was the milestone and the restaurant that expected the most. So much so that I committed to zero one day or two if I needed it to be able to eat in this place that has served the fillets just a few days a week. I talked since I met with new friends from Darby and every time Lima crosses a conversation, I intervened so that everyone knows that there is an grill and that I will go to that.

I am happy to say that the restaurant was all that wanted it to be and more. There was Taxidermia on the walls, American flags, beer signs and real -life rancher winners in the place. He had a chuleton with a baked potato, garlic bread and a César salad. I went full, but I still wanted a desert for later. In the convincing store, I collected ice cream from a local Creamery Montana who was a chocolate sparks Mint Oreo with caramel swirl.

Back in the room, I heel my heels and prepared for the bed to spend the night. The sunset from the hotel was impressive tonight.

View at sunset from the Beaverhead motel

Day 45: 23.4 miles

The highlight: Leave Lima. Sheep.

I slept until almost 6:30 am this morning. I woke up in the middle of the night with itching on the knee and had anxiety and fear of being bitten by bedbugs. I had them once in the AT and it is not fun to have the bites, but also the fear that your team will be contaminated. Fortunately, it was only the bite when I woke up in the morning.

Once awake, I enjoyed a second hot shower and took an energy drink. I grabbed a lemon poppy seed muffin and a coffee with milk of almonds decaffeinated cupcake of the Janzz coffee next to the motel and ate in the room while stretched. Also in the room I filled the bathtub with water and submerged my mattress of inflated air in the hope of finding this slow leak. I have it reduced to an area from which bubbles would arise slowly, but I could never locate the exact hole. I put some tape on the area and we’ll see how he clings to sleep tonight.

Also in the hostel I found an sleeping pad on the foam in the hiker box and cut it for a pad to rest and I can add it under my hips to cushion and additional soil isolation in the event that my slow escape leaves me without air or insulation between the floor of the store and me.

At 9 am, we returned to the path and the walk began a dirt road towards a sheep farm. We had heard from the north hikers that the dogs of the sheep can jump the spike wire fence and harassed the hikers. We did not see dogs on the property when we walked Pass.

After about 10 miles of walking road, a single path of trail made its way through a mixture of grasslands and hills covered with grass. Midnight, full circle, and lunch in the shadow of a tree. I ate tortillas with grape chia that I found in sprouts and peanut butter.

Today we have seen more Novo hikers than in any other day. He spent perhaps one a day after leaving Anaconda, 2-4 per day after Leadorae, and now almost a dozen hikers have passed. Now I can see fingerprints in the north direction on the CDT route.

While walking towards a meadow, we find an entire ear of the sheep and some small goats. There were dogs that threw us, but kept the distance while we walked beyond the heads and continued along the way.

Sheep in the middle of the path

At the end of the afternoon we arrive at a spring water source and look at the camp options. There was something in a mile or just over six miles next to a lake. I felt good from the city and I didn’t care about extra hiking if that meant that we did not need to dry the camp (camp without a water source nearby).

We arrive at the camp around 7:30 pm and have dinner at a small lake and we see that the clouds change the colors while the sun was putting on the night. It is assumed that tonight is cold, so I packed some heaters by hand and I am excited to use one tonight.

Sunset at camp

Day 46: 28.7 miles

The highlight: Lake Aldous

The hand heaters were incredible last night and was so hot in my bag that I ended up removing my swollen jacket in the middle of the night. I also slept with my electronics bag and my water filter in my feet box to avoid freezing.

The sun has been coming out a little later every day and I find myself sleeping more time for the dawn. I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning feeling more than yesterday, but finally once I heard all those around me to get up and ready, I joined.

I had morning energy and walked almost 3 miles per hour at our first meeting place in Aldous Lake Trailhead, which had a private and picnic tables. At the tables I ate all my snacks in the morning and I had to grab the afternoon snacks of my bag to mark me. I also did a stretching routine and I really concentrated on the muscles of my calf that were sore from the last stretches of 7,000 feet or more of vertical climbing every day.

After regrouping, midnight, full circle, and went to the next water source where we drink 3 liters of water for dry stretching of 17 miles that was advanced. It was late, exposed and sunny for the long uphill. I reduced my rhythm and, although I frequently applied the sunscreen, my legs and the face were a bit pink at the end of the day.

My left shoulder hurt today and I almost feel that my necklace bone is bruised from the heaviest package in this section and adjusting my backpack to wear the foam pad on the posterior panel of my package. I took more frequent package breaks and would use my hand to hold the belt of my neck bone for a little pain relief.

Once in the next water source, I was ready to walk for the day. My body was great the last section of Hiking from Leadore to Lima, but today my feet were sore and tired and my hips began to feel sore at the end of the day.

I arrived at the camp and prepared, ate, and then discussed the potential to continue on the red line or take a blue line for Mack’s Inn. The blue line is shorter, can still hook West Yellowstone, where we plan to obtain field permits for the park, and the most important thing is that the blue line avoids water transport of more than 25 miles that is in the red line after West Yellowstone. We all agree to sleep and make a decision in the morning.

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