Day: 010
Date: Thursday, 16 May 2024
Start: Silver City
Finish: Silver City
Daily Kilometres: 0
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos from her jog this morning..
Total Kilometres: 272.3
Weather: Warm and partly sunny.
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: McDonalds big breakfast
Lunch: Ham/Turkey salad rolls
Dinner: Pizza, ice cream
Aches: Dave - the usual niggles; Julie - painful knee after falling on her morning run.
Highlight: None really.
Lowlight: None really.
Pictures: No pictures today.
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
We had a sleep in before Julie went for a run and Dave tried to work out in detail what our schedule would be for the next few weeks so we knew how much food to mail ahead and where.
The CDT has many “alternate” trails along its route and that is particularly the case for the next few hundred kilometres. Most hikers choose, for scenic reasons, alternates that more or less follow the Gila River rather than the “official” CDT route north of Silver City and we will do the same.
With the planning finished we walked across the road to a McDonald's for breakfast and then trekked about 1.5km further out of town to a Walmart where we bought the needed food and other supplies. After walking back to the motel we sorted out what had to be mailed ahead and then walked 1.5km into town to the post office and mailed food and winter gear ahead to two different towns. We also mailed some gear we no longer need to Dave's nephew in Denver to hold until the end of our trek.
With all that done we bought lunch from the same bakery in downtown Silver City as yesterday and then walked back to the motel via an outdoor store where we bought a few more things we needed (better tent pegs and a gas cylinder).
The rest of the afternoon was spent doing laundry and packing for resuming our hike tomorrow before having takeout pizza for dinner and an early night.
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