Day: 077
Date: Monday, 22 July 2024
Start: Rawlins
Finish: Rawlins
Daily Kilometres: 0.0
GPX Track: Click here and here for Julie’s Strava & Photos from her runs and walk today.
Total Kilometres: 2224.0
Weather: Warm and mostly sunny.
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Three egg scramble, toast & jam.
Lunch: Chicken salad subs
Dinner: Cheeseburgers, apple crumble & icecream.
Aches: Nothing to mention.
Highlight: For dinner, we joined a BBQ in the motel courtyard organized by a young married couple hiking the CDT who are staying at the same motel and who we met earlier on the trail. It was an enjoyable evening with lots of interesting stories shared. There, we also met “Log Man” who is carrying a log on his shoulder (in addition to the pack on his back), for the entire CDT. He has already hiked the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail carrying his log (to raise money for charity), so he is one tough cookie.
Lowlight: Nothing in particular.
Pictures: Click here.
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
Another slow start to the day with Dave really catching up on some missing sleep, not waking for 11 hours.
For breakfast, we walked back to the same diner where we had breakfast yesterday and ordered pretty much the same thing again, before walking 2km down to the old part of town and the post office to mail food ahead to our next town, the hamlet of Atlantic City. By the time we boxed and sorted out addressing, etc, it took some time. The PO staff were very kind and helpful.
There is obviously some local pride in the historic old part of town, but still many shuttered businesses. Rawlins seems mostly dependent on the business generated by the I-80 transcontinental freeway and the transcontinental railway (on which there always seems to be a very long slow-moving freight train) which pass through town.
Then, it was back to the motel and lunch before Julie went to the nearby supermarket to buy the remaining supplies we need for the next 180km-long leg crossing the Great Basin in the Red Desert of Wyoming. The Basin is a depression on the Continental Divide where no rain that falls ever reaches any ocean and we know that water will be scarce and we will be very exposed. Also, we are unlikely to have much Internet access, so blog updates are unlikely.
Later, we joined some fellow CDT hikers for an enjoyable BBQ dinner in the motel courtyard (see above).
We had an early night, anticipating a long day tomorrow.
Good luck guys....prep carefully.
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