What no margarita? Well they say variety is the spice of life, and anyhow fresh mint was 2 for 1 at the supermarket. We’re still using the lemon and lime powder, bit of sugar, mint, splash of water and of course some rum :) Muddle it up with a spoon and it’s not bad at all, very refreshing at the end of the day! Pity the mint is going to be pretty hard to come by, or this could easily become a regular feature.
This is our first camp out of Rawlins, we didn’t get too far, had to wait for a replacement water filter to be delivered. We thought we’d be in a barren wasteland, but it’s surprisingly nice here. I’d even go as far as saying it’s probably the nicest camp spot we’ve had since the start of Colorado. No insects bothering us, soft green grass to sit on, spring right next to us, pleasant temperature, it’s perfect! We thought the great divide basin was going to be hard, it’s a piece of cake!
Hi this is Nicky :) Here’s a quick montage of Lomo moments i took when i visited the boys in Colorado. They’re taken on the section between Silverthorne and Steamboat Springs which went from mountains down to meadows, and a lot of forest! We even saw a large herd of wild Elk running through the valley below which was a pretty amazing site. So stunning that i totally forgot to get the camera out ;)
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Paul had a little tidy up of his facial hair today, Nicky gave mine a bit of a once over while we were in Steamboat Springs. Since we’re halfway through now, seems like a good opportunity to compare ourselves to when we started. If you’ve forgotten already, this is what Cookie looked like and this is what Paul looked liked. Do you think it’s an improvement?
Also as fast as we’ve been growing facial hair, we’ve been losing the weight, I’ve gone from 185 pounds to 167 pounds. Paul’s gone from 168 pounds to 151 pounds.
Be interesting to see how much more we’re going to change before Canada!
We got up super early to try and get a fair amount of hiking in before the sun rose, shouldn’t of bothered it’s been cloudy and quite cool today. Got into town for lunch though, which was good.
We took an alternate route from the mountains to Rawlins. It was 15-20 miles shorter, we’d been a whole 2 days without booze, we had to get there fast! The only downside was hiking along this never ending road, wasn’t too much traffic though.
Oh yes, what joy, 200 miles to the next tree I hear. It’s hot as hell, soaked my hat it some of the last naturaly occuring water we’ll pass and it was bone dry in about 5 minutes!
Looking out towards the Great Divide Basin which we’ll shortly have to walk across…
We came across a rendevous re-enactment while we were in town. In the good old days of mountain men, apparently they all used to meet up here to sell all the animal pelts they’d trapped.
Interesting fact I didn’t know was that they made top hats out of beaver! Anyhow, there was a good deal of shooting and axe throwing going on :)
Ahappy site after a hard days hike :) We tried hitching for an hour, but the traffic was so light we started walking the 10 – 15 miles down to Encampment… Fortunetly we got pick up only and mile or so down the road!
