Right now, Ben and I are packing up our last things at my parents' house in Waldo, Ohio, home of the famous fried bologna sandwich (at the GNR Tavern in case you ever want to check it out). We spent all day yesterday purchasing more food for our mail drops along the trail, packaging and re-packaging food items, and separating everything into its appropriate box for shipping. We will not ship, however, until we get to Colorado, as it will decrease the cost significantly. Our packages include all kinds of things from hand sanitizer to small shampoo for use in town for our very infrequent showering to candy bars and Lara Bars and dehydrated meals. I hope to blog more later with more details about the food drops, but for now, per request, I am posting our itinerary up to trail time:
June 6th, sometime soon (8am?): departing Waldo for Omaha, Nebraska, where we will have a late tent set up and hopefully a quick fire so we can use up our grass-fed beef from Hokybe.
June 7th: depart Omaha for the Badlands, South Dakota, where we will stay 2 nights.
June 9th: depart Badlands for Custer State Park and the Black Hills, South Dakota.
June 10th: depart Black Hills for Devil's Tower, Wyoming.
June 11th: depart for Boulder, Colorado, to stay with Ben's family. We will acclimate and do some hiking to get ready for the trail.
June 20th: tentative start of trail. We recently found out that around the Breckenridge area (where we will arrive about 8 days into the trail), the mountains had record snows, and as of about 10 days ago when I called, the snow was still at 54"!!! So, we are continuing to monitor the snow and have high hopes to start on the 20th. The good news--other areas of the trail farther south have had lower than average snowfall this year, and in some areas the snow is almost gone already.
Hope you are enjoying the wonderful weather and fresh produce that is coming from this excellent time of year. Ben and I basked in the glory of freshly picked strawberries here at the Birchfield farm. We are sad to leave behind all the wonderful garden glories this time of year, so, enjoy some of them for us. :)
Love,
Kim and Ben
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