A Little Crazy

It's my three month anniversary on trail.  Today was the hardest day we've had in awhile and we just may be a little crazy.  The CDT was the purple route with reported good trail.  The red route stayed up high on the ridge.  It was 7 miles shorter and "classic and cool".  We took the red route.  It was rocky and cross country.  There was no nice path to walk.  We climbed Parry's peak, Mt Eva, and a couple others.  It was also very windy.  We came to a scary looking rock scramble and bailed down to a reservoir and the purple route.  

But we still had to climb Jones Peak.  Which we did.  A couple of day hikers on the way up told us we looked like we were flying up the hill and good work.  To me it felt like plodding as it was a long way up.  When we descended down Jones peak and looked back at where we'd been it was mind boggling cause it looked so rugged and impossible.  

The weather held for us which was lucky since we were high above tree line all day.  In the evening we took an old forest service road down to where there were trees and level ground for camping.  We both struggled today and had mini melt downs but we worked through it and forged ahead.