Continental Divide Trail 2021 thru-hike Day 1- the southern monument to the first water cache!

good morning this is the state of my room the morning of the trail the morning i start ooh excuse me i still have a little bit of packing but mostly ready oh yay i'm nervous it's okay [Music] thank you right on the border yay so i just started the continental divide trail i am less than a mile in i've been chatting with some of the other through hikers that started today i feel really happy so excited um i was having some foot problems like um the week like this past week i thought i had tendonitis in my foot and i was really worried about it but i saw a physical therapist and he helped me like stretch it out and stuff so anyways just an update on that it was pretty much just a just some muscle tightness and some of the bones of my foot being kind of like jammed up but anyways the uh it's doing really good and i'm feeling good feeling really happy and i'm excited to see how this day goes the wind's been giving us a nice breeze and helping us feel cooled down there's a bit of cloud coverage it's just so wide open out here wow um so just a logistical update i have five days of food with me it's 84 miles to lordsburg uh the first trail town i and also their five full days like lots of extra food for each of those days anyways uh i have four liters of water with me and it's 12 or 13 miles to the first cash box that the shuttle service crazy cook um shuttle service for us and also i think ray at the um econo lodge in lordsburg with cashing uh water so definitely going to be watering the caches all the way until hormones back so that's good okay i should check the map psych i literally got on trail that was awesome so um yeah uh anything else oh yeah i'm definitely going to the first cash box which is at 12 or 13 miles but i might try to continue on um just depending on how my foot feels and yeah i'll keep you posted on on that right now the trail is pretty much a path just very lightly a lightly tread i don't know if you can see those three hikers up there but that's leah walking man and i actually didn't catch the other guy's name but yeah they started with me there's a few others behind starting today and yeah everyone seems really cool i'm excited to be with other hikers [Music] yay so we're off the cdt now headed toward our first water cache at 13 point miles i think and yeah feeling pretty good might stay here tonight but i don't know for sure yet we'll see i think i'm gonna keep walking yeah that sounds good it's time to use this so beautiful already signed this cool cash box one log so this is my camp spot for the night it doesn't seem that flat but i think it's flat enough and able to kind of smush down these rocks and find a good little sleeping nook in there so i'm gonna set up my tent now so so is there a lot of shade over there now that's good foreign um oh oh looks good i'm having some ramen for dinner it's been a really nice day my tent's all set up and just ready to relax and enjoy this food so this is my tent set up just have my quilt sleeping pad pillow my bag most of the contents of my bag and ready to get all cozy sunset looks really pretty so quiet and still it's really nice so that's it for day one it was overall such a good day i met some really awesome people and just took it easy only did 13.7 miles to the water cache and i took a break probably every five miles and massaged up my foot and it's feeling okay definitely still tight but yeah i'm looking forward to tomorrow the sun has set and it's just now starting to get dark and a little chilly and i'm all set up in my tent nice and cozy and looking forward to a good night's sleep and a super early morning for day two bye

Channel: Stella Hikes

Views: 15,180

Keywords: Thruhiking, Backpacking, CDT, PCT, AT

Id: Dday-cMc9ac

Length: 14min 1sec (841 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 19 2021