Day: 055
Date: Sunday, 30 June 2024
Start: Twin Lakes
Finish: Bald Eagle Mountain
Daily Kilometres: 28.4
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos
Total Kilometres: 1612.7
Weather: Warm and sunny in the morning, partly cloudy with a thunderstorm and occasional showers in the afternoon and evening.
Accommodation: Tent
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Omelettes, hash browns & toast
Lunch: Meat & cheese subs
Dinner: Rehydrated meals.
Aches: Dave - the usual niggles; Julie - nothing reported.
Highlight: Nothing in particular.
Lowlight: Hordes of mosquitoes at our evening campsite.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
After breakfast at a diner in Leadville, Fraser and Annalisse (Dave's nephew and his partner) drove us back to Twin Lakes and joined us for the first 7km or so of the day's hiking. Although mostly uphill, it was generally along nice trail through pleasant pine forest with a few views as we chatted amongst ourselves.
After saying our goodbyes to Fraser and Annalisse, who were going to jog back to their car and then return home to Denver, we continued northwards on the CDT.
Most of our day was spent on undulating and well-maintained trail through pine, and occasionally aspen, forest between l0000’ and 11300’. Sometimes there were views to the east where, later in the day, we could see Leadville, where we had stayed last night.
Being a Sunday, there were quite a few trail-runners and day-hikers along the trail, but we also had long stretches to ourselves.
Around 6:45pm we stopped in a clearing by a stream and set up camp. The mosquitoes were horrendous and we finished our chores and meal as quickly as we could so we could get in the tent. Our timing was good, because 15 minutes later a thunderstorm came through with very heavy rain.
We passed 1000 miles today.
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