Wed Jul 4, 2018 @ 02:31

One of my favourite things about this trail is how clueless most people are about its existence. We climbed James Peak first thing in the morning from Loch Lomand (the trail starts right at the end of the loch wall closest to James Peak). On our way down the far side we passed a LOT of day hikers. Amusingly, several of them thought we were simply very over prepared day hikers. When we explained we had walked from the Mexico border, a few people assumed that was a Colorado town they had never heard of. Hilarious. One guy tried to tell us we weren't actually on the CDT (despite not knowing what the CDT even is) and one family spent 10 minutes explaining to us there was no way we could possibly make it to Grand Lake by the next day. Man people love to have opinions about things they have no idea about! Here is Bourbon at the summit of James Peak doing a bang up job of pointing at Mt Bancroft (we have a friend who has this as his last name- hey Row!)