After getting out of Leadville we hitched to Twin Lakes and got a ride with a nice older man that drive us to the Trailhead. The trail retained quite a bit of up and downs, but it seems that since we hit the Colorado Trail section or is less total elevation change.
The nights are starting to get pretty cold but except for one day with a little rain we had clear sky for the first time in Colorado.
The section was important to Ninja, as she had already done part of it in the snow and wanted to hike to Monarch Pass to see how the trail is on normal conditions.
This also means Monarch pass was the official finish point for her and we got to celebrate yesterday with some drinks and a nice meal at a restaurant.
She will try to meet me up in the next town and then hitch to Denver to catch the flight back to Germany while I will continue to finish my hike at Chama.
There are about 280 miles left and I plan to finish by end of September and hope to not miss my hiking partner too much. Although she already started to give me some objectives along the way so I am sure it won’t be boring…
