It's Saturday afternoon and I am currently in the process of getting the details of the trip in order. Due to countless people telling me how stupid doing 70 miles of the CDT was, I've decided to re-evaluate which trail we will be hiking. I have finally settled on doing the 4-pass Maroon Bells trail which is considerably shorter, and less intimidating. We will still be scaling 4 peaks above 12,000 feet and doing approximately 30 miles of hiking (on the trail that is, we plan on wandering into the wild abyss quite a bit). It should take us 6-7 days God willing. For those who do not know, here is a quick outline of the team.
Mike "Gorilla legs" Jaderston- Mike is 6"3 174 pounds and has ridiculously hairy legs. He was born in the wilderness and raised by mountain goats.
Andrew the Giant- Andrew is 6"9 320 pounds of pure muscle and brute girth. He decided to join us at the last minute and we hope bears will be scared of him. Andrew lives in Wichita and will be a sophomore at Sterling college this year.
Jon the Hippy- He has dreadlocks. He will be a junior at Sterling college and he likes wandering the world without any direction or purpose.
Matt "?" Jaderston- The mysterious one with a beard and a walking stick.
Trenton James- Our dear Canadian friend. He is in town visiting family and asked if he could join. He will be a great addition. He's very quiet and camera shy, but we think he will open up once we are on the trail.
We will be leaving Monday morning for our 8 hours drive to Aspen CO and will be sleeping in our van for a night. We will then be hitting the trail tuesday morning. We hope to finish the
trail in 6-7 days, but it could take much longer.
Prayers would be much appreciated.
God loves everybody.
-Matt
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I'll be praying for you boys. Avoid the bears.
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