08:51:58, hours MDT
...continued hiker’s journal…
The columbines are coming out @ 8600’ and above.
Walked Ellie-Mae the day before yesterday along the Argentine-Central grade from Plume up and over the saddle onto Guanella Pass between the G-town Water Supply and Clear Lake and back. Was about 5.5 hrs. and maybe 10- 12 miles.
A man I met this past winter from Sema on the re-construction project of lower Guannela here south of town told me that he met the teenager who died last week on a fall on the mountainside. He cried and was very touching to hear this from this man. He has a love for hiking in winter-conditions like a lot of us and seemed to need to talk. I empathize with his story and have grown a liking to him although I know him only as an acquaintance.
I love the early morning transition from Marine and Civil twilight and the coolness just before the dawn while walking Ellie. She is in good shape and yesterday we rested. Todays usual… was up the narrow-gauge to second trestle and then back and under the High Gate. Maybe a 1.5 hr. walk.
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