We had a fun week in the Basin where we skipped a few sections that Ninja had already hiked while on her way up to Montana in June. We started out in Atlantic City where we had a Beer and a Margarita – which apparently was one of the best that Ninja had on the CDT – and the barmaid had made too much and did not charge for refilling the glad twice.

After our little drink on the only bat of Atlantic City Wyoming with the immense population of 57 people we headed out into the Basin. We decided to camp at hollow creek a little of trail which was a nice campground and after doing a few more miles in the section that Ninja had already completed we hiked out and hitched to Rawlins where we planned the section to Encampment. Especially the last 20 miles are actually quite enjoyable as it goes a little higher up towards 11000ft with plenty of trees to give a little shade.

Once we got close to highway 70 where you can hitch to Encampment – a difficult hitch due to the lack of traffic, I was jokingly saying it would be nice to have a guy on an ATV take us out and back to Rawlins and also give us a soda. 2 minutes later a guy on an ATV arrived by chance and we talked him up and he offered us a ride to Encampment. And when he dropped is of he also gave us a soda – I guess I should become an oracle after I am done with the trail.

We got a ride with a friendly retired guy who drove is all the way to Rawlins which is 80 miles out of his way and also offered us to take us back to the trail once we are ready. We will be eating breakfast on us with him tomorrow and cannot believe our luck!

Today is the last rest day before we hit Colorado within this week, as we are making our way towards Steamboat Springs, CO.