Scatter my ashes here...

Scatter my ashes here...
scatter my ashes in the desert...

Sunday, June 17, 2012

North End

Day 2 was a long day again, slow progress with 35 miles. Cooler temps, steady climb and descent. Got chased by a cattle drive, sharpei'd and chicked some mountain bikers going uphill, sniffed the ponderosa pine bark- yes, Ed did that too!

Logistically it's been sort of awful, torturous, without a crew. More about that in the full post, later.

After a wait for some burgers at a roadside restaurant, picking up the car at the Dumont trailhead, getting gas before the gas station closed in Lead, and a trip to the grocery store before it closed at 9 pm, we had a 55 mile drive to Custer, checked back into the Rocket Motel around 10:30 pm, then got showers and crashed around 11 pm.

We discussed some ways to salvage this thing before it becomes not fun. More details soon!

2 comments:

HappyTrails said...

Is that one of your Walmart leopard tops??? I hope you can keep it all fun! Do you have a favorite section of trail?

Alene Gone Bad said...

You bet it's a Walmart top, Kathleen. Nothing but Walmart...

The north end was my favorite. Cooler, higher elevations, mixed conifer and aspen forest. Very nice.

And fun...yes, we did keep it fun.