Tag: Breckenridge

Hitchhiking to the San Juan’s

I’d walked away from myself just as much as I’d walked away from society.  After a month of silence, alone in the mountains, it was time to mingle with the other apes. I travelled south, from Breckenridge to Fairplay and beyond by connecting local buses, to end up stealth camping in Salida. Then hitchhiking from […]

The End of the Trail

Around mile 100 on the Colorado Trail I stopped hiking completely. Just outside of Breckenridge, where I’d quit hiking two years prior for a different sort of adventure. And yet here I was again, having lost faith in humanity somewhere in between. I camped there in the mountains for almost a month. Laying with mountain […]