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Continental Divide: Mile 20
The sky is different here. Vast and open with stars littering the darkness. There is nothing to dull their brilliance. Even with a new moon, you can see at night by starlight. It is that clear. I wish...
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Continental Divide: Mile 75
I stared upward at the giant metal blades of a windmill, trying to will them to move in the light afternoon breeze. I needed to know if it worked. It looked old, but well maintained. The machinery...
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Continental Divide: Mile 400
My eyes blinked open to the blue-pink haze of dawn and I smiled. “This is going to be a beautiful day,” I whispered. But it wasn’t enough, wasn’t convincing. Neither the world nor I quite believed me....
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Continental Divide: Mile 695
The trail slid underneath a wall of snow and disappeared, swallowed whole five miles from the Colorado border. “Is this really it?” I thought. I smashed my foot into the snow bank and scrambled to the...
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