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30 th Jun 2008

Damp camp tonight

But it doesn’t seem so bad when you’ve got a great big roaring fire going to keep you warm :)

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30 th Jun 2008

Texas Creek is testicle deep

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30 th Jun 2008

and walking through woods

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30 th Jun 2008

Lots of creek crossings today

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29 th Jun 2008

Awesome Sunset

After crossing a high pass me and Paul had a look a the weather and concluded, looks like a thunderstorm tonight, but also looks like it’d be an awesome sunset. We took the risk and camped high up, just on the edge of the tree line. Certainly paid off, we got about half an hour of the sky changing through beautifull colours while sipping our margaritas :)

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29 th Jun 2008

Dedication to a good drink

Can you see the green bag strapped to the top of Paul’s rucksack? Well that’s usually the bag we hang our food in, away from the prying claws of bears. But now that it’s almost July and the remnants of last winters snow are melting fast, we’re having to pack down the snow from the high passes to make our margaritas with! Well worth the effort though :)

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29 th Jun 2008

Old railway = easy gradient

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29 th Jun 2008

PooView

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29 th Jun 2008

Chalk Creek Pass

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27 th Jun 2008

Monarch Crest

Lovely walk along the ridge between Marshall Pass and Monarch Pass today. This is usually a really popular mountain biking route, but as you can see there’s still a few sections deep under snow, so we had it all to ourselves.

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26 th Jun 2008

Mosquitos

Well it had to happen eventually… Now its warning up and the snow is melting, the mosquitos are becoming a problem :( means we have to sit around the campfire in full waterproofs until they go to bed.

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25 th Jun 2008

Biggest fire ring ever!

No idea why you’d build one this big, I assume each person who’s used it has added to it over the years. Alas it wasn’t past 7pm, our stopping cut off time, so we couldn’t give it a go…

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24 th Jun 2008

Dull as dish water

This section of the CDT seems a total let down in comparison to the San Juans we’ve just come across. It’s low down, generally in trees and on two track, not even any snow for our margaritas! Good opportunity to get our heads down a do some milage though.

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24 th Jun 2008

San Luis Peak

This was the first 14 thousander we pass by on the CDT, should of been an easy climb from the pass, but we decided to give it a miss because of the forecast thunder storms. Ended up being a good call as they started up soon after we descended down into the tree line.

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23 rd Jun 2008

Storms on the way

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