Category: Trip Journal

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Collected trail journals, in book format. To download, right-click and choose “Save As”. PDF files are searchable

• GETW2024 Grand Enchantment TrailWork
• CT2023 Colorado Trail
• HDT2022 Hayduke Trail
• MRT2021 Mogollon Rim Trail
• AZT2020 Arizona Trail
• NNML2019 Northern New Mexico Loop
• PCT2018 Pacific Crest Trail
• SCW2017 St Cuthberts Way
• GET2017 Grand Enchantment Trail
• CDT2016 Montana Continental Divide Trail
• CDT2015 Wyoming Continental Divide Trail
• CDT2014 Colorado Continental Divide Trail
• CDT2013 New Mexico Continental Divide Trail Part 1 , Part 2
• AT2012 Appalachian Trail
• AT1988 Appalachian Trail

Related Posts:

• CDT Colorado Trail Journal Index
• CDT NM Trail Journal Part 1
• CDT NM Trail Journal Part 2
• AT 2012 Trail Journal Maryland
• AT 1988 Trip Journal: Georgia

 

• On Road and Rail to Trail June 17
• Starting Colorado
• Intro to Colorado
• Snow Good
• A Break from the Juans
• Nero Pagosa
• Sawtooth
• High and Dry June 24
• Knife
• Window
• Start Colorado Trail
• Yurt
• Lake City
• Leaving LC
• Follow That Creek July 1
• Road Hard
• Rock
• Return to Colorado
• Chasing Blue
• A Higher Path
• Rejoin July 7
• Twin Lakes
• Next
• Leadville
• Zero Leadville
• Un-Leaded
• Fighting Beetle
• Fog July 14
• Peaks and Pause
• More Peaks More Pause
• Berthoud
• Winter Park Nero
• Wind and Ridge
• Deadwood
• Lakes July 21
• Leaving Park
• Parkview
• Going Low
• Close Enough
• Wheels on the Bus July 26

Check back next year for CDT2015 Wyoming, and later Montana!

(PDF download of trip journal)

Related Posts:

• Next Trail
• CDT NM Trail Journal Part 1
• CDT NM Trail Journal Part 2

After lining up to board the bus, and no vehicle arriving, and staying lined up for an hour with no bus appearing, we were finally told the driver was “sick” and no replacement driver could be found. Well past midnight, finding a hotel room is impractical, so most of us were forced to spend the night in the bus station.

The bus terminal management perceived a problem with downtown transients, so every couple of hours a loud intercom announcement told us to get our bus tickets out for inspection, and anyone without a ticket was thrown out of the building. If you got up to stretch your legs, also expect to be challenged by a security guard demanding to see tour ticket. Continue reading “Wheels on the Bus”