Bursum

  • GxL Day 3, Thursday,  April 4
  • Start  past John Kerr Peak
  • End Gail Tank
  • Miles walked: 19

In the morning I met Mighty, doing an early CDT hike north to avoid the crowd.

Mighty warned me about a peak just ahead with blowdowns, locust, and deep snow, which I was hiking over in early morning, which avoided post-holing.

Later the route joins Oox Canyon Road, and then Bursum Road, for some easy road-walking.

We go past Collins Park and  Antelope  Horn Peak.

Bursum climbs, then descends, and we divert onto a smaller 2-track through grassland.

The wind is high, but in a little notch is located Gail Tank, with good water and sheltered from wind.

My inflatable sleeping pad got a slash, and my field repair kit could not fix the leak. Oh well.

Finished audiobook The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Finished audiobook The Lost Cause, by Cory Doctorow.

Author: Jim, Sagebrush

Jim (trail-name Sagebrush) codes audio software for Windows, Linux, Android, and embedded systems. When not working at sagebrush.com, he enjoys backpacking, which this blog is about.

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