After getting some much needed rain pants at High Divide Outfitters, I couldn’t have picked better timing. Got hit with a serious wind and rain storm and called it at 3pm, completely soaked and frozen. My hands were numb and as the temperature dropped into the 30s, I just laid in my tent for 17 hours and shivered.
My buddy Masshole resupplied me at Macdonald’s Pass and met me at Homstake Pass with McDonalds and ice cream. He also got me the GPX files I needed for the Big Sky Variant route around the enormous fire that closed down part of the CDT. What a guy!
The next day I hit I-90 and after 16 miles of road walk, made it to Whitehall. Stopped at the grocery for more ice cream and a bag of mandarins while I charged my stuff. I left there not feeling good and a few miles outside of town became really sick (I’ll spare you the details). So I wasn’t able to do the miles I wanted and had to pitch at 7.
To make it to Mammoth Hot Springs by 5pm on Monday to receive my resupply and hit 4,000 miles in 4 months, I needed to do 163 miles in 3 and a half days. So leaving Whitehall Friday morning at 7am, I busted out a 42,48,48 and the remainder into Mammoth arriving at 3:45 on Monday.
After eating some elk sliders, I hiked another 5.7 out of town and finished Month 4 with 1,119.4 miles and 4,000.9 total miles total, so far.
What a challenge that was and what a relief to be able to do it. 120 days down, 2,850 miles to go!
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