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T -1 Day

4/24/15 I start hiking in about 20 hours! I sit in a Hampton Inn in Durango Colorado unable to even nap. Despite doing two long hikes already I find myself full of anixity. I haven't slept worth a shit for days. It took the motion of…

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Helping Hands

I have been lucky enough to either continue working with some of the following companies or recently gained their support for this year's hike. As I'm a numbers person I can say combined, along with a few other grateful individuals I have…

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“…Caretakers of your Scathole.”

So I was looking for a company that made wipes to use as toilet paper on the trail. My only two really hit points were they had to be scent free and biodegradable. I did a search online and found some crazy company called "DUDE WIPES". I…

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Grateful

Tonight I went to see the movie, "The Theory of Everything". If you don't know what it's about, it's the life story of Stephen Hawking. Seeing this tonight reminded me of a thought I had this weekend while riding mountain bikes in Loma. It…

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Best, Worst, and Biggest of 2014

For a little light humor I wanted to share what I found to be my Best, Worst, Biggest and Weirdest moments of 2014. Best Bike I rode: Rocky Mountain Thunderbolt Discovery: 3M Scotch Brand Super 77. We've all seen riders abandon…

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The Low Down on the CDT

Whenever I tell someone I'm going to walk from Mexico to Canada along the Continental Divide Trail they always have a ton of questions. You can see the hamster in their head go from zero to 100 in an instant. I have noted these questions…

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2015 CDT/Triple Crown

Updated 5/2/15 ClifBar has joined the team! It's that time again. Time for me to lace up my shoes and hit the trail. This time it will be the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). Like the Pacific Crest Trail the CDT starts…

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Shenanigans of Late

It's been a while since I posted anything so here is a photo journal of the last few months. I've been fishing in Maine, cycling in Breckenridge, CO and on the Monarch Crest, which is part of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), and climbed…

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Lessons in Metaphoric Blankets Learned Hiking the AT

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Bears, Singletrack, and Pavement

A while back I wrote this on Facebook, "Every year I say I'm going to ride less and do more hiking, fishing or trail running, anything but riding." So can someone explain why two out of the last three weeks I have ridden over 200 miles, climbed…