The Colorado Trail

  After my last post, I’m sure some of you are wondering what in the world happened to our brains. Let me explain the background on what exactly we're doing…
 

  The Colorado Trail starts in Littleton, CO (which is part of the South Denver Metro area), and ends in Durango, CO. Although it only takes about 4 hours to drive the distance, we will be on the trail for around 5 weeks, maybe 6. The CT is 485 miles long, not including side journeys or hikes into town. The average elevation is just over 10,000 feet, and the trail crosses six wilderness areas, eight mountain ranges, 7 river systems, and tops out at above 13 thousand feet.
 

  We'll be heading out around the beginning of June, hope to be back to civilization about the second week of July. We originally thought about following El's sister’s footsteps and hiking the Appalachian Trail, but since we're planning on moving to Colorado this summer, we decided to look check out trails there. I’m actually much happier with this choice than hiking the AT.

  A lot of people have asked us why on earth we would want to do something this crazy... I mean, this is a pretty ridiculous plan. Not to mention the no job, no house part, the trail itself is rather inhospitable. No reliable source of safe water, massive lightning storms forming daily, and the literal possibility of enduring heat stroke, hypothermia, hail, rain, lightening, snow, and altitude sickness… all in one day, makes the trail sound like a rather formidable foe! But what is life if lived the safe route? People live and die on the safe route everyday. I’d much rather take the adventure filled road.

  Besides, this is something we really want to do, and what better time? Since we're moving anyway we won't have to worry about paying rent while we're gone, or taking time off work. We're young, and as of yet have no children so we're jumping on this opportunity!