Everything's Gonna Be OK

2000 miles. 4 states–Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. 14,000+ ft. 4 months. Snow, rain, wind and now desert. Hello New Mexico. Nice to meet you.

1.3 miles an hour. Post holing to our hips. And winds with snow that felt like buck shot in the face.

Mountain Monastaries and Prismacolored Monks
We all walked with our heads bowed in silence. Not because we wanted to buy because we had to. For minutes. For hours. For minutes thy lasted for hours. Silence only interrupted to change the prayer cadence walking order. This was not to pay our respects to the mountain gods, although [...]

These are from the past week or so of snow, blizzard, hail, rain, more snow, and COLD weather of southern Colorado. I think we counted and have had only 3 days this entire state of sunny weather all day.

Good morning from twin lakes. I woke up early and walked outside. Beautiful. I heard everyone grumble. “valley thinks everything is beautiful,” as they rolled over to go back to bed. An hour later, a storm rolled in and it all went grey and frigid. “real beautiful morning, valley.” then I showed them the pictures [...]

And 251,000 ft of elevation gain. Not to mention 3 and a half states. Finally, the original writing utensil from the finer folk at draplindustries.com has run out of ink. Thank you Aaron. Now onward to writing utensil number two in orange.

Mt. Elbert is the highest point in Colorado. We climbed it during a blizzard. Ahhhhh…the CDT. (ps thanks for the brownies Patch and Patch’s mom and dad)

1)We were camping in the woods, the woods right behind the driving range. 2)the frozen fairway just behind us. …
Adam got hit by long range sprinklers. I woke up with frost on my sleeping bag.

“turn right…maybe…”