Our original plan was our first backpacking night of the trip at Great Sand Dunes National Park. I’ve been really looking forward to backpacking and started reading some backpacking accounts on Reddit to get hyped up even more. That was a mistake. All the posts clearly outlined the difficulty, the extreme level of misery, and […]

Read More Day 7: Great Sand Dunes to Mancos

Close your eyes and imagine your climbing a mountain pretty hard, Right? Now imagine that instead of walking on diet and rocks your walking on sand. Yeah that’s what we did today. The day started like any other with sleeping in and holiday day inn breakfast we ate in the car today because we had […]

Read More Day 7