Wolf Creek Pass, ready to go. Temp 34 degrees, wind howling
Goat from Good Night Lonesome Dove (very cool cabin rentals for summer and winter) in South Fork is letting us stow our car for 6 weeks while we do our hike. Check out their link: www.goodnightslonesomedove.com/
Not far up from Wolf Creek Pass we saw our first CDT sign.
In the snow of course, while it was snowing, of course.
Awww the long trail, where? I thought for a little while we were back in Oregon (see June last year this blog)
Around Archuleta Lake some of the CDT Pack caught us; No Amp, Breeze, Bone Lady, Papa Smurff on snow shoes, and early the next morning we met some other hikers with Yukon.
You can see for miles and miles from up here.
On the second or third day of this stretch, the high altitude combined with a low grade sinus infection I brought from Ohio blossomed into acute sinusitis. We got our car back from Goat and are now sheltering in Pagosa Springs for a few days while I pop amoxicilin and cough suppressants. Just to give a sense of why we pulled off the trail for the mean time: At my worst, we were on a jeep road with mile markers and late in the afternoon it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes to walk one mile!
When we got to Creede I realized how zoned out and sick I was. Jay and Kevin had the same thing but not near as bad. We hope to be back on the trail in a few days. In the mean time HAPPY AND HEALTHY TRAILS.
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