Atlanta to Durango: A Colorado Trail Story: An update and a shower

Hello people of the civilized world. We've made it to Twin Lakes--which is beautiful yet tiny. The only inn here was full tonight so we wound up in a double wide trailer where Adam summed it up perfectly, "when I was outside I didn't think I smelled weird but now all my stuff smells awful." There's no washer so we're washing stuff in the sinks.

First things first we all have trail names meow: Cloud 9, Dirty Mike, Peacock, and Buckwheat. Feel free to decipher who's who on your own.

We caught our first hitch attempt out of Leadville and slept in the rain Tuesday night. On the way to camp though we got our first trail magic: a cooler with juices, donuts, sodas, and gummies!

The next day we hiked 19 miles to get to the Mt. Massive trailhead for Thursday morning. That was our first 14'er and it was challenging but extremely worth it. We dropped some stuff off at the trailhead so we didn't have to carry everything but it was still a strenuous climb. We did see some fellow thru hikers basically running to the summit with no packs yelling "WERE GOING FOR A WORLD RECORD."

--lol we just heard a huge thud from the shower followed by laughter. Cloud 9 was on the floor of the tub wrapped in a shower curtain--

After massive we camped close to Mt. Elbert (tallest mountain in CO and second tallest in contiguous US) so we could hike that today and we did. We had some company both for camping and hiking of Jolly and Skippy.

So two 14'ers in two days. Not too bad. Ready for a shower and some sleeps on a bed though!

Mom--I don't have service just so you know. I'll call you when i do :-)

Also Willy wanted me to say something like this: "we've had lots of hat envy." His version was much wittier and more eloquent. You can see the hats we have in the Mt. Elbert photo or maybe on Mikey's dads Facebook. Who knows. I don't get service anywhere. Boost mobile--looking at you.

Photos:

Mt. Massive summit