{"id":1117,"date":"2020-09-19T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2021-02-13T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:54:29","slug":"daily-log-day-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/2020\/09\/19\/daily-log-day-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Log: Day 69"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meetup: <\/strong>Day 69 – Saturday 9\/19\/2020 – 2213.0<\/a> – sunny, breezy, cool. I woke and packed up. I tried to sleep in but only got to 5:20 am. Oh well I tried on my last day. I put on my puffy to get warmer. I had my last on-trail pop tart breakfast sitting against the Jeep \u2018s back tire. Then I was off at 6:10 am. Up the road by another campsite. I hiked quietly by them to not wake their dogs. I came to a gate blocking the road and walked around. The road walk was easy and now it was light enough to see. I went by a closed camping area trailhead and two small lakes. I had plenty of water so I didn\u2019t stop. The trail began to climb. Easily I ascended. At about 7 am I was warmed up and stopped to take off my headlight, headband and puffy. I was disappointed that I had only gone 3 miles. Oh well I only had 7 more and I would be done. I started listening to my audio book Nine Perfect Strangers to help pass the time. Then at 8:15 am I stopped for my first snack. I was again surprised because now I had only 4 miles left. Where did the time and miles go? I must have been moving faster or misread the earlier mileage. The trail was up on the crest of a hill and became very rocky. Carefully I placed each foot. I was trying to make good speed. Nearly there I saw two mountain bikers approach. I said hi and they said they had met my son – a typical refrain but a good one for the last day – ha! I was only 1\/2 mile to go. But I made a bad turn coming down the hill and when I looked at Guthooks I was a few tenths of a mile beyond. So I climbed back up the hill, went by the horse corral, by Ken\u2019s camp but didn\u2019t see his truck, and started down to the forest road to the intersection. I saw the Jeep. I yelled a big loud “Hello” and saw Justin waving. A moment later a big hug, lots of smiles, selfies and I WAS DONE, WE WERE DONE, IT IS DONE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hiking into camp where we had been stranded for three days in the snowstorm. This completes my goal of section-hiking over 1000 miles in 69 days from South Pass City WY to Cuba NM where I had gotten off trail in 2016. What remains is to hike from South Pass City WY<\/em> to Glacier National Park and the Canadian border. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I am happy. I am done. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Time to sit down, drink a celebratory Coke, and … (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… tell Justin that I couldn’t have done it without him.<\/em> Thank you son! (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marking the end I send my last Garmin InReach daily message: “I’m checking in, everything is ok.<\/a>” As they would say in the movies: It’s a wrap. (Photograph Courtesy of J. Watt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meetup: Day 69 – Saturday 9\/19\/2020 – 2213.0 – sunny, breezy, cool. I woke and packed up. I tried to sleep in but only got to 5:20 am. Oh well I tried on my last day. I put on my puffy to get warmer. I had my last on-trail pop tart breakfast sitting against the … Continue reading “Daily Log: Day 69”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-log","category-hike","category-meetup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/cdt_hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}