Day: 114
Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Start: Warm Springs Road
Finish: Goldstone Pass
Daily Kilometres: 37.1
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos
Total Kilometres: 3305.3
Weather: Very cold early then cool and mostly sunny with a cold wind.
Accommodation: Tent
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Pop tarts
Lunch: Snacks/Trail mix
Dinner: Rehydrated meals
Aches: Dave - the usual niggles; Julie - nothing reported
Highlight: After spending most of the day hiking through forest, the last two hours took us across a series of rocky outcrops with terrific views of the surrounding mountains.
Lowlight: Getting up in the mornings has been a lowlight for the last few weeks when it has been very cold. We both curse when the alarm goes off, not wanting to leave the warmth of our sleeping bags, but we do. Then comes 30 minutes of getting dressed and packing everything up inside the tent, keeping as warm as possible, then 30 minutes of packing up outside, including the tent and our packs and sorting out what food needs to be accessible during the day. It can be a miserable 30 minutes with frozen hands. It's always a relief to put on our packs and start walking.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
It rained quite a lot overnight but, with a wind continuing to blow, everything was dry when we woke and packed to leave on an exceptionally cold morning. The rain last night had been part of a strong cold front, as the weatherman on Dave's radio later reported.
For most of the day, we continued to follow the Continental Divide and the state border northwards, mostly on reasonable single-track trail through pine forest, although we did pass through several burn areas. It was good to see new trees beginning to grow in these stark landscapes.
There was only one place to get water during the day, a stream which we accessed by detouring off the trail and following a forest road for a few kilometres. We saw two cars on the road and the only other person we saw today was a trail runner. The trail here is part of the course of the Beaverhead Ultra.
Later in the day, we reached a more rocky landscape and the trail took us over some outcrops before climbing steeply to the top of the last, reaching 9700’, before we descended steeply to Goldstone Pass. Julie, who had gone ahead, got some water from a spring a little off the trail and we found somewhere reasonably protected to camp amongst the trees around 7pm. There is a cold wind blowing and it is very cold, so we ate and got into the tent as quickly as we could.
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