Pancakes, thunder and a vault bath? CT 16-19 segments

The only positive thing I have to say about 16 is that it started with more magic of paths! To be clear, that was not the intention. We ran into a SRAM bicycle meeting at the beginning of the Marshall Pass path, and one of the women was a CT graduate. They were the most friendly, and they made pancakes and hot coffee, I could also caress a lot of dogs and have a good conversation. It was a wonderful beginning for the day.

The rest of the day went from Meh not to have fun very fast. 16 It is not a hard segment, but you have to observe the water. We fill ourselves just before the segment began. The next water was not for 11 miles, with cow cakes, and even reports from a dead cow, near … Yay. Shortly before getting there, it began to rain from time to time, and by the time we were filled, it began to rain louder.

Keep in mind that I picked up my refueling for six days in monarch, and now I carry water in dry sections, and to a dry camp. Taking 6 days of food and 3 liters of water, climbing a hill for 3 miles under a cold rain is not my idea of ​​fun, but here we are. Towards the end of the 16, still raining slightly, we visit Soldier Stone. It is worth the trip. Then we found the camp at a 4 × 4 road intersection where we settled in the rain now touched. You may have had a small collapse on everything that is soaked. Breakfast included, it was a 5/10 day.

Oh look, it’s an advance

Segment 17 began with sinister clouds and some soft increases. Despite the clouds, we could remain dry in the morning. The next water was Razor Creek, almost 11 miles away. It was gently until we were a mile of the stream. I saw an investment in the cloud, so we prepared for the rain, and indeed, more rain and hail followed us until the end. Finally it stopped when we were filling our water, and the sun rose.

Segment 17 is supposedly the least favorite of all. Apart from being a long segment, I really do not agree. In addition, it is full of wild raspberries, so how can it be so bad? We arrived at 2 miles from the end before making a camp in a grass field (full cow cake), and the rain even waited until we got into our stores to start over.

Road miles and dodging storms

Well … a disaster awaits you for segments 18 and 19, friends. In the camp last night, I joked about being able to get both segments of the same day, but we agreed to camp in the middle of 19 by Creek Creek was probably better. That was our plan when we left that morning.

Both segments are relatively easy, and is found on the old roads of the forest service. Our first stop was 11 miles in the Creek, and we reserved it through those miles quickly. At least, we were looking at a day of 23 miles. Not long after our rapid rest for water, we could see more rain, so we covered our packages and put the rain layers. It is ordered and shit when you can see rain in all directions.

What is not ordered is when you reach a higher point, looking at a huge thunder that is raining and sounds like the doors of hell. I am not sure that we could have more luck that it would go through us, losing the path for approximately half a mile. This area also seems fond of random doors with a questionable function to pass, which increases the fun of dodging storms.

Arroyo Carotopa

The sun and the rain played in the following miles until we arrived in CaroTopa Creek, where it became a constant rain. Cottopa Creek is much larger than I expected, and had around 95 Castor dams along him. We reload our water (again, in the rain), and try to look for a good camp. In Farout (it is an application for hikers), someone claimed many good camping. I beg to differ. The points were very exposed or right next to the stream, not my favorite. We decided to eat while we came up with a plan.

It was still early. As at 4pm early. We had already covered 23 miles, and we were both tired, but the camp options were nothing great. We knew that more rain would arrive around 7 pm, so our brilliant idea was to reserve it the last 5 miles until the end of the segment and camp there. So verted it, we did it. I would like to take into account here that at approximately mile 19, my right pimpy began to hurt, so it was probably a bad decision for many reasons.

You slept …where?

We surround it through those last 5 miles. There were two Creek crosses that required a cold Ford (which is more water when you are already wet), several flocks of cattle and more damn doors. As we approached, I could see more storm clouds on the mountain. He unleashed shortly before reaching the beginning of the path. Thank God for the vault baths that were there, because I stopped under the cantilever and waited for Peyton.

Peyton arrived, and after a moment there was a break in the storm. This was the perfect opportunity to configure our tents! I went up to mine while she was going to get the last of her things in the bathrooms. It was then that all hell was released. The wind rose strongly and the rain poured. I sat inside my store, listening to everything, and I saw his lighthouse down the hill. Although we were distance, the storm was so strong that I couldn’t hear it. I quickly noticed that he was still out of his store under the torrential rain.

I took my head to discover that the wind had flown through his store. When several rays hit the valley in front of us, she grabbed her things and ran through the bathrooms. We sat there for a minute, scared, before we decided that these bathrooms were going to be our beds tonight. Before asking what happened to my store, the ground around me had already begun to flood. My final tail were the nearby rays around us.

I ran to gather all my things. I launched everything to my backpack and returned to the bathroom. I had my side and she had her own. It wasn’t the camp I expected, that’s safe, but I would do it at night. Is this legal? I have no idea, but desperate times require desperate measures. Would you recommend sleeping on the floor of a vault bath? Only if it were your last option. Did I have this on my bingo CT card? At all. However, as the rain continued to spill and thunder around us, he was incredibly grateful to have a safe and dry place to try to rest.

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