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Month: April 2021

Day 7: Big Bull and Little Burro

On April 30, 2021May 2, 2021 By muddyshoememoirsLeave a comment

4/24 The morning was slow-starting as I built log cabins of tape around my blisters, flossed the thread, squeezed again, and finally bandaged. “Ok. This doesn’t last that long,” I reminded myself. Just get through each day, and before I know it I won’t even realize I’m not thinking about my feet. The yucca fields …

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Day 6: Burritos and Blisters

On April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 By muddyshoememoirs2 Comments

4/23 Day Coming down out of the hills, the first things we encounter are a ghost town and its cemetery, both called Shakespeare, and a veterans park with old military vehicles. It’s funny we were worried about having enough food for this last half day, because when we reached downtown Lordsburg we’d only eaten breakfast …

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Day 5: Holes and Hydrography

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4/22 Who digs all these holes? This desert is just full of them. Large, small, cobwebbed, fresh, multileveled. I guess any creature seeking shade with the capacity to dig is going to excavate out here in this shade-less, sun-blasted, wind-blasted land. The Bootheel is so dry compared to other deserts I’ve hiked through- Utah and …

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Day 4 : The Right Yucca is Just Enough

On April 30, 2021May 16, 2021 By muddyshoememoirsLeave a comment

4/21 Clouds striped the sky, making the morning walking almost chilly. I’ll take it! I pump-primed my leg, drank much and refilled everything at the water cache, and then followed single track on again. Prana plugged in an audiobook, and I piped music to my ears. The clouds cleared too soon, but a strong breeze …

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Day 3 Heat and Friction

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4/20 A band of jewel-toned fire lit the horizon as I lit the coffee water. Cherry lights whirled again in the dawn, and I wondered if Dan and Rita still hadn’t gotten a ride. We were hiking by 7, an hour and a half earlier than yesterday. “So, are you in love with the CDT?” …

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Day 2: Big Hatchet

On April 29, 2021May 16, 2021 By muddyshoememoirsLeave a comment

4/19 It rained last night, in this extreme drought of the New Mexico desert. I woke to percussion on the tent fly, the smell of freshly dampened sand and sage wafting in. In the morning I had to manually bend and straighten my knee - like priming a pump - several times before I felt …

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Day 1: Embarkation

On April 29, 2021May 16, 2021 By muddyshoememoirsLeave a comment

4/18 Dry. The New Mexican desert is dry, reeling by outside my window, much drier than the start of the PCT or even the Arizona Trail. The morning had detoured a few times, our shuttle handing off cyclists to another driver in Hachita, where luckily we ran into Radar - the guy stocking the water …

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CDT – En Route

On April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 By muddyshoememoirsLeave a comment

We pulled away from Ashton Idaho in a little white rental car with the touchiest brakes I’d ever encountered. About 22 hours of driving would bring us to Silver City, New Mexico, along highways and byways that would closely parallel our hiking route. It would have been nicer to leave before 1:00, but it just …

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