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| Let The Hiking Begin! |
Friday, July 6
The last day Eva and I were together I got an itch to go hiking (hard to imagine, I know). I wanted Eva to experience a bit of the CDT so I suggested we hike a 14 mile section of the trail from Copper Mountain to Highway 9 near Breckenridge. 14 miles is a long hike for Eva, but this one included 3,107 feet of climbing and crossing a ridge at 12,490 feet. That’s A LOT of climbing at altitude! (I may have left out a few of these details when I suggested this hike.) We started hiking at 6:30 AM after a breakfast stop at McDonalds and got the BIG climb to the top of the ridge while it was cool. We even met a thru hiker named Story Time camped low on the ridge.
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| A Graph of the CLIMB! |
Eva did a great job and we completed the hike without any problems and very little complaining in just under 8 hours. We took a shuttle bus back to our rental car and celebrated by having dinner with another thru hiker, 5 Star, and having ice cream with some friends, the Elmores, who are pastoring a church in Colorado.
Tomorrow I return to the trail and have a hiking partner, 5 Star. It was wonderful to spend time with Eva, and I am excited to be hiking again. We may not meet again until I finish this trail, so we tried to make the most of our week together.
For additional content, check out Flickr for images, YouTube for video, SoundCloud for audio, and the Postholer Map with my most recent location.
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Denise Hughes