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Glacier Nationalpark

July 24, 2019/7 Comments/in Animals, Awesome, CDT, CDT Blog 2019, Continental Divide Trail, Fear, Hiker Trash, Long Distance Hiking, Snow, thruhiking, USA, Vertigo /by Heidi

The coming section will be special and we are both greatly looking forward to it! We will be hiking through Glacier Nationalpark!

Wild Horses

June 13, 2019/4 Comments/in Animals, Awesome, CDT, CDT Blog 2019, Continental Divide Trail, Desert, Fear, Food, Hiker Hunger, Ice Axe, Long Distance Hiking, Snow, USA /by Heidi

Plan A stands!

Felix just talked on the phone to Barbara. He got her phone number from the local grocery store.

Thunder in Colorado

June 7, 2019/7 Comments/in Awesome, CDT, CDT Blog 2019, Continental Divide Trail, Desert, Fear, Long Distance Hiking, Plans, Snow, thruhiking, Trekking, USA /by Heidi

I am laying in my hotel bed in South Fork. Felix went over to the gasstation to get us our mandatory pizza! Yes! They sell Pizza at gasstations in the US!

Onwards in the Snow

May 31, 2019/13 Comments/in CDT, CDT Blog 2019, Continental Divide Trail, Fear, Gear, Hiker Hunger, Hiker Trash, Long Distance Hiking, Pacific Crest Trail 2017, Snow, thruhiking, Trekking, USA, ZPack Duplex Ultralight Two Person Tent /by Heidi

So yes, we made it all the way to Colorado! For quite a while now we have been thinking that we need to bail out once we make it to Colorado.

I mean, bloody hell, it’s still snowing up here!

Meth and Snow

May 25, 2019/10 Comments/in CDT, Continental Divide Trail, Food, Hiker Trash, Long Distance Hiking, Pacific Crest Trail 2017, Plans, Snow, thruhiking, Trekking, USA /by Heidi

Off we drive into Albuquerque, aka the “Meth Capitol”. (You guys who have seen “Breaking Bad” know what I mean!)

My New Ice Axe Skills!

February 11, 2019/5 Comments/in Awesome, CDT, CDT Blog 2019, Continental Divide Trail, Crampons, Fear, Gear, Hiker Trash, Ice, Ice Axe, Learnings, Long Distance Hiking, Pain, Plans, Pre Trail Thoughts, Psyche, Public Transport, Scotland, Snow, Trekking, Vertigo /by Heidi

Decision made! I will do this “ice axe, crampons and self arresting” course in order to prepare for my next thru hike!! I am all set, the plane to Inverness, Scotland, leaves in 7 hours. So I better get some sleeping done.