ATA 58 | Backpacking The Mummy Range

 

Experience remote ruggedness, Alpine Lakes, and impressive forests in this seldom visited range in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Mummy Range. Get away from the crowds and experience pristine wilderness where you might not see anyone but your hiking mates for days! This challenging section of the Rockies showcases beautiful alpine lakes, meadows, lodgepole pine forests, and epic views. We climb to about 11,400 feet and hike both on and off trail. If you want to do the same, be sure to hire a guide unless you are an experienced back country hiker! The journey begins in Estes Park, followed by a hike in the broad river valley before climbing ever higher elevations across the Tundra fields of the high Mummy Range. You’ll see snowcapped mountains and, on a clear night, the Milky Way! It’s not uncommon to see a large herd of elk and sometimes moose. If you’ve been yearning to witness true wilderness, consider trekking the Mummy Range!

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Experience Remote Ruggedness, Alpine Lakes and Impressive Forests in this seldom visited range in Rocky Mountain National Park

Get away from the crowds and experience pristine wilderness where you might not see anyone but your hiking mates for days!  This challenging section of the Rockies showcases beautiful alpine lakes and meadows, lodgepole pine forests and epic views.  We climb to about 11,400′ and hike both on and off trail (be sure to hire a guide unless you are an experienced back country hiker!).

The journey begins in Estes Park.  Before long, we begin our hike in the braod river valley before climbing ever higher elevations across the Tundra fields of the high Mummy Range.  You’ll see snow capped mountains and on a clear night, the Milky Way!  It’s not uncommon to see a large herd of elk and sometimes moose!  If you’ve been yearning to witness true wilderness, consider trekking the Mummy Range!

Where is the Mummy Range?

The Mummy Range is a 15 miles/24 km mountain range located mostly in Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado, northwest of the town of Estes Park.  

Prominent peaks include Hagues Peak, Ypsilon Mountain, Mummy Mountain and Mount Chiquita.  The range supposedly got its name because it resembles a Egyptian sarcophagus.  

The Mummy Range offers challenging (and some technical hiking) and some serious solitude!  Be advised that unless you are with a qualified and experienced guide, you should have substantial backcountry experience as you are not likely to see many people who can offer any assistance.

Once away from town, your reward will be unmatched beauty you aren’t sharing with the crowds.

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When to Hike the Mummy Range

Summer hiking is best done from July through early September.  Like always, especially when you are hiking in the mountains and at this elevation, you want to be prepared for all seasons every day, not matter what month! 

 

Wildland Trekking Itinerary

My affiliate partner, Wildland Trekking, offers a superb five day trek through the Mummy Range.  In addition to the five star views, you’ll indulge in five star backpacking cuisine with fresh – NOT dehydrated- foods!  Paula was shocked at how good the food was!

Here’s Wildland’s Itinerary:

Day One:  Begin in Estes Park and you are shuttled about an hour to the Chapin Pass Trailhead.  You’ll be following the Cache La Poudre River and have about 500′ of elevation gain.  Approximately 6 miles hiking.

Day Two:  A fun day of 1000′ up and down elevation change and where you’ll be camping at about 11,000′, just below treeline.  Opt for the side three mile hike to Mirror Lake for a total of 5.6 miles hiking today.

Day Three: The highlight of the trek, you will be hiking above treeline for unsurpassed views of Mummy Pass and the Rockies!  You do about 1250′ elevation gain, plus you’ll be hiking about four of the seven miles off trails to get a better peek , plus you’ll be ascending Skull Point(12,026′) and Sugarloaf (12,101′) before joining up with another trail to tonight’s campsite.

Day Four:  We begin the gradual journey back down, trekking about seven miles, including about four miles along the Thompson River.  At camp, we have a celebratory dinner and hopefully a campfire, where we can exchange stories and reminisce about our journey.

Day Five: We continue along the Thompson River until we reach the Dunraven Trailhead, about five miles.

You can learn more about Wildland Trekking’s Five Day Mummy Range Backpacking Trek HERE.

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Wildland Trekking is an affiliate partner of Active Travel Adventures.  This means that at no additional cost to you, if you use my links you’ll be helping to support the show and keep the podcast ad free – thanks!  Kit

 

Hiking Trails in the Mummy Range 

There are 21 trails in the Mummy Range, mostly accessed via Estes Park for a total of 114 miles of great trekking!  The Hiking Project website lists each trail and has a decent map that also lets you know it’s difficulty rating and overall trail rating (although since the Mummy Range isn’t as well trekked, some trails don’t have many ratings yet).

 

Difficult Trails in the Mummy Range:

 

Trail – Distance – Grade – Elevation gain/loss – Highest point

Lawn Lake Trail : 6.3 miles, Intermediate,  2448+/0-, 10,997′

Mummy Pass Trail: 9.5 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 2053+/1689-, 11,456′

Big South Trail: 10.6 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 1694+/450-, 9707′ (leashed dogs allowed)

North Fork Trail: 9.5 miles, Intermediate, 3204+/262-, 10,727′

Signal Mountain Trail: 5.6 miles, Intermediate, 2731+/107-, 11,231′, Leashed dogs allowed

Crystal Lake Trail: 1.5 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 522+/37-, 11,511′

Stormy Peaks Trail: 7.0 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 1502+/2625-, 11,663′

Saddle Trail: 1.5 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 924+/0-, 12,350′

Mirror Lake Trail: 1.5 miles, Intermediate, 319+/25-, 11,020′

Comanche Peaks Trail: 2.3 miles, Difficult, 1771+/0-, 12,533′

Black Canyon Trail: 8.2 miles, Intermediate, 3354+/457-, 10,998′

Corral Creek Trail: 1.3 miles, Easy/Intermediate, 1+/345-, 10,029′

North Boundary Trail: 5.9 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 2555+/1163-, 9721′

Grand Ditch Trail: 15.2 miles, Easy/Intermediate, 272+/438-, 10,346′, Leashed dogs allowed

Chapin Creek: 3.2 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 38+/985-, 11,117′

Poudre River: 9.7 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 302+/1282-, 10,735′

Ypsilon-Fairchild-Haques Summit Rt: 3.4 miles, DIFFICULT+, 2057+/2174-, 13,433′

Hague Peak Trail: 3.2 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 221+/2605-, 13,340′

Mount Chiquita Ypsilon Summit: 1.3 miles, Intermediate/Difficult, 677+/247-, 13,468′

South Signal Mountain: 4.1 miles, Easy/Intermediate, 241+/723-, 11,061′

Trap Park Trail: 2.9 mile, Easy, 613+/52-, 10,541′

Wildlife in the Mummy Range

With so few people to scare them away, you are apt to see a lot of wildlife including herds of elk, moose, mule deer, bighorn sheep, black bears, coyote and cougars.  There are also many butterflies.

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Backpacking The Mummy Range In The Colorado Rockies

We’re doing a really cool five-day adventure where we’re getting in the backcountry away from all the people and both on and off-road trail courses guided. Without further ado, let’s get on with the show.

Can you start by introducing yourself and perhaps telling us your age?

My name is Paula Tabott and I will be turning 50 in August.

We first met Paula back in episode 55 when she taught us about her trekking adventure in the Wind River Range. As a recap, if you didn’t read that, she got into adventure travel about a few years ago after she met a woman who was traveling the world solo and then just opened her eyes to, “I could do things differently too.†She ended up going on a solo with a group, a solo trip to Sylvania and got hooked on adventure travel. Now she’s getting bolder and taking a couple of trips a year.

Thank you very much for having me back and I’m glad to be here.

Until I met you, I didn’t even know anything about the Mummy Range. Where is it and why should we go there?

The Mummy Range is in Estes Park in Colorado and it is absolutely beautiful. If you’ve never been to Estes Park, you need to travel to Estes Park as well. The Mummy Range, I had never heard of it either, to be honest with you and I was traveling out to California to meet up with family. It wasn’t going to be a “Paula trip,†so I wanted to add a few days somewhere ahead of that so that I could get out there backpacking and again look to Wildland Trekking to see what they had to offer and landed on the Estes Park Mummy Range trek. The area is just beautiful. A lot of the trips that I seem to end up on, not necessarily a popular one in terms of the number of people who are on the trek with you, which for me that’s a plus. I like to trek somewhere where you feel like you’re off the beaten path and you and your group are the only ones who are out there. This particular trip was five days long versus the River Range was seven. It was beautiful. I had the desire to explore more in Colorado based on my experience of Estes Park including the drive in from the airport. There’s a beautiful winding road that changes the elevation and goes through different small towns and so forth on your way into Estes Park.

The Mummy Range is in the Rocky Mountain. You’re in the Rockies. Tell us a little bit of an overview of your trip in terms of the terrain, the people. You said it was five days. Are you starting in the valley and going up? Are you starting up in the mountains already? I’ve only been to Colorado once and that was to Mesa Verde National Park for one day. That’s my sole exposure to Colorado outside of pictures.

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This was my first exposure to Colorado. You’re traveling up and up. They’re driving you through little windy roads and so you do start out high, but you’re definitely hiking up high too. The terrain on this one was varied so you are in the Rocky Mountains but you do start out in the trees. Throughout the whole trip, you are traveling through all different areas. You’re traveling through the tree line. You are traveling across this vast looks like a prairie. It’s filled with these small shrubs and there was no trail in that particular area. It was phenomenal with the mountains all around you. There was a portion of the trip where you are traveling across this boulder field and everywhere nothing but rocks. From the standpoint of each day feeling very different from the day before, this trip had it for those five days.

I remember my favorite campsite during this time. You’re traveling through the woods, Alpine forest and you get to this area, set up your camp and step right outside the tree line. All around you in both directions is just this beautiful mountain range and a valley. The land is falling off right in front of you and rocks everywhere. This one particular night, the sky was showing us this beautiful picture show. On the left-hand side, the sky was totally on fire, this bright red. The pictures that I got back, they look like they’re doctored but they’re not. It was this bright, beautiful red and pink and so forth. On the other side, it’s this beautiful blue and yellow. We all hung outside of our tents later then we had a fire because you do get to camp and you’re tired because it was so beautiful.

From doing a little bit of research, it looked like the range was first formed by volcanoes, but then the glaciers came in. They’ve done their part when they pull back and all that, they rip apart the land. It’s got to be an interesting landscape.

It really is. It’s so varied each day. One of the things I have a hard time with on trips, I love photography, it’s putting the camera away and paying attention to the hiking part of it. I’ve gotten pretty adept at holding the camera while hiking and snapping off some pictures because while there are definitely plenty of stops, it’s that beautiful that you want to take pictures the whole time versus keeping your memories. You want to see prints and share it with others. Try to relay what the trip feels and looks like through your photos.

The photos still never do justice to landscapes as far as I’m concerned.

I absolutely 100% agree with you. It doesn’t mean I don’t stop trying to convey it, but I wholeheartedly agree. There is a special feeling about being in the middle of it.

Tell us a little bit about your group. Was this a group tour?

 

It was. This was the smallest group that I had. Wildland Trekking, I believe that they pride themselves on the smaller group experience. For this particular group, it was my son, in his twenties, myself and then two ladies who had hiked the Appalachian Trail the year prior. They’d done that for several months and this was their first backpacking experience with a group. We also had one guide. The ladies had such a wonderful time as we all did that they swore that they were never going to go back to just backpacking on their own because they said that this was the way to go. I was lucky enough on this trip as well to gel with everyone and I think it was our last campsite, we were all acting so silly. We started putting the camera on for it to take pictures of all of us and we were posing, including the guide, being silly trying to act like we were total badasses out there taking our photos. It was a good group. I feel like I’ve only had a couple of trips with Wildland Trekking, but if the guides that I had on both of the trips are any indication of the guides that I’m going to have moving forward, I will always travel with them.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about Wildland Trekking and before I affiliate with any company, first of all, I reach out to them 99% of the time. Also, I do my homework and I check with people that have gone on there. I check with Trustpilot out of their 300 some odd reviews. All but one was excellent and that one was great. It just says a lot for the company itself. I should note too that they are exclusively trekking, almost always backpacking and sometimes they do llama support and other supported hikes. However, you’re always hiking. Unlike other companies that I may work with that are multisport, we might throw in some kayaking and biking, all that. This is strictly a hiking company that goes to some of the epic destinations around the world. Let’s talk about food. Food is very important. You’ve got to keep your energy up. How did you eat?

Wonderfully. Wildland Trekking has phenomenal food. Some people I think maybe more purists or people who don’t want their packs to be quite as heavy, subsist on the “backpacking food,†and you’ve got your granola bars and your little snacks, oatmeal, that thing. Wildland Trekking, you do go on these backpacking trips and have backcountry gourmet experience. I remember for breakfast one morning we’d have pancakes and then they had rehydrated berries and so forth to go on the pancakes. The food on both of the trips that I took both in the Wind River Range and then on the Mummy Range trek in some instances are better than what I’m going to eat at home.

What would be the dinner? Can you remember some of the dinners that you had?

We had pad thai one of the evenings. I’m going to have to think about that on, Kit. I don’t remember. I just remember each night being satisfied. I know that sometimes people are like after you’ve backpack during the day, it doesn’t matter what you’re going to eat. It’s going to taste like the best thing you’ve ever eaten. Their food was phenomenal but for the life of me, I can’t remember exactly what we were eating.

That’s not a problem. In fact, I’m going to put another plug in here too. I have an episode that came out on nutrition on the companion show, Adventure Travel Show where I teach you the how-tos of adventure travel. If you don’t have Wildland Trekking to fix your gourmet meals, it’s to give you an idea of what you can put in your pack so that you will have the energy you need to get through the day. It sounds like you didn’t need my podcast episode there because you were well taken care of.

I was very well taken care of, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to listen to your podcast.

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How hard was this one compared to the Wind River?

I found this one to be quite a bit easier than the Wind River Range. I believe it’s rated a four, if they were to give half stars, I’d say three-and-a-half to four. This one went to a higher elevation than when we were in the Wind River Range but being that it was five days and I felt that the distance that we traveled over the course of those five days was less than the Wind River Range. There was the one particularly long day where we’re just going up and up the whole time. In that day, we left the trees. We want to cross the meadow that I was talking about and then across the boulder field. We ended up at the highest elevation. Interestingly enough, even though we were in the middle of nowhere, we had cell service. We were able to FaceTime some of our family members and say we’re at the highest elevation that we’ve ever been at. The view was spectacular. It was a lunch spot that we’d taken.

There was one day in which we had the choice as to whether we were going to continue on trail or whether we were going to go visit one of the lakes. I believe it was the day prior, we visited two spectacular lakes. We let it hopped from one to the other after we made camp. They were so beautiful. The following day when we were given the option to go to the other lake, we were split between those who wanted to go and those who wanted to continue on trail and head to the next camp. We are a group and we do just have one guide. We did not go to that other lake. That particular day was a shorter day which is appealing to some people to have that time to recharge and relax and get to know a particular area better. I did find it quite a bit easier than the other trip.

What time of year did you go to the Mummy Range?

That was in September.

Were the leaves starting to change then?

I think it was the aspen trees were just bright yellow. They were beautiful. It was a very nice time of the year to go. I don’t remember any bugs. I know that as we got lower into the valley on the last day, I felt that heat coming back but it was quite beautiful when we were up there. I would absolutely recommend. I don’t know what time of the year that Wildland Trekking offers the trip but September was a perfect time to go.

 

I’ll put that in the travel planner that will come out automatically with each one’s newsletter. The Mummy Range has Colorado’s only, “Wild and scenic river,†which is a special denotation they do for rivers. Before I forget, did you see any much wildlife? I hear there are elk and moose in the area.

We heard that as well. We saw prints but we, unfortunately, did not get to see the wildlife and that was disappointing. I’ve yet to see a moose. They were talking about all of the elk and the moose like you’re stating that are in the area. We did not see any on the trek, but interestingly enough, when we got back to the hotel that last day in Estes Park, this whole herd of elk just came across this patio that was right next to the hotel. I got to see them. I didn’t get to see them on the trek.

My first time to Maine, I was hoping to see a moose and finally we were driving home because we drove up there to hike, we saw two juveniles crossing the roadside. That counts, so I get that.

It counts.

You said your weather was good. How was your weather?

The weather was beautiful the entire time. It was a perfect hiking weather. I don’t remember that we had to pull out our rain gear at any point. I think that we had a shower come through as we were setting up camp that one night, but it was short-lived. That was the same night that we had that nice night show and the sky show. I’m trying to think that when we were going across the past year, we did have a storm come through too, but again short-lived and very windy too. The whole time it was just beautiful.

Is there something you wished you’d known before you’d gone there?

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I wish that I had known or maybe paid more attention to the itinerary and that we weren’t going to go to the lake for one day. I would have liked for that particular day to be a bit longer or to have that be a mandatory part of the trip. You are dictated by the group and I was one of those who would have liked to have gone to the lake to see that because you do train for a reason and you’re out there for a reason and there’s plenty of time to sleep when you get back home.

Perhaps too with a larger group where you had two guides, you could have split up.

I do know that’s what they’ll do in a lot of instances, it’s up to the group and as you’re sitting half can go along with the one guide while that other half stays back at camp. I would have liked to have seen it. I did get to see the two the day before. I would have liked to have known that. It probably would not have changed my decision to go, but you don’t have false expectations.

You had said that the Wind River Range was up in your top three. How does this Mummy Range compare?

I would say more in the middle and upper-middle I suppose. I loved the area. I am a fan however, of seeing things that are very different. The Wind River Range was entirely different and had a different feel to it. With the Mummy Range trek, I definitely did see things that I don’t see over here on the East Coast, but you’re in the trees for part of the time and then you’re out in the open. Going across that boulder field, that was quite spectacular too. Being that it was just the five days, you usually have that one day that you’re getting in and then the one day that you’re coming out which is usually in the trees. It’s just for three days. Because that was a shorter trip, it falls more in the middle for me. All of it together, leaving the airport, doing the scenic route into Estes Park, seeing and experiencing Estes Park as well as the trek itself makes me want to go back to Colorado and do more exploration because it is so beautiful. Overall, it was a wonderful trip. I loved the guide too. I have already spoken with her about potentially making some more Wildland Trekking trips into the Grand Canyon which she leads.

Estes Park, is that something you would recommend somebody a lot, a couple of days to spend there in addition to doing this hike?

Absolutely. The whole area is so beautiful with these great big rock formations. I have a cousin who lives out in Colorado and he says, “I love Estes Park.†It’s got a neat vibe to it. I know that the Mummy Range was just one area of hiking in this whole area. I would go back and would definitely recommend it to others to go explore as well.

 

I think one reason why one does the Mummy Range too is that it allows you to be away from the people. Things can get so crowded nowadays. If you go to the national parks now, it’s bumper to bumper, but this way you’re out totally by yourself.

Yes, you are. I’ve gone into Utah to Zion National Park. Some of those parks, they feel like an amusement park because there are so many people that are going into Yellowstone and seeing Old Faithful. With this park, you don’t feel that way. You are off the beaten path and get to have that true backcountry experience.

Were you on a trail that’s marked that somebody could do this if they had some good backcountry skills or would you recommend they go with a guide because it’s not marked? How does all that look?

It was a mix. I would have answered yes go out there on your own until the long day that I was talking about where we were going across this great big pasture area and then the boulder rocks. There was no trail. We had to make our way through this whole area. It exists on a map. There were no trail markings. When you’re in an area so vast where you should see the same thing in both directions, it’s also difficult to place yourself even if you were to have a map in terms of landmarks. I personally would say go with a guide.

I want to be with a guide in the backcountry. I want somebody that knows that land.

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Also, from the perspective of the information that’s going to be shared with you from the guide, you are traveling to an area that you’re unfamiliar with and it’s a new experience. You want someone not just to lead you and cook for you, but also to teach you, to explain to you why the land looks the way that it does or the different animals in the area, the vegetation, the history behind the area. Having a guide, it’s a package to walk away not having had that experience in that and seeing all of that beauty, but to walk away with more knowledge about the area as well. I think that’s key.

Speaking of the history, the reason it got the name Mummy Range is the first visitors to the area thought the profile look like an Egyptian sarcophagus or Egyptian mummy, whatever the word is. That’s the rationale because it looks like one of those King Tutt tomb-y things. Do you have any favorite memory when you tell people about this trip? What’s your favorite go-to story?

It’s probably the evening in which the sky was beautiful. We were sitting over this crevice, in the land that got torn apart by the volcano. That particular evening will always stick out in my memory because when everyone becomes quiet and just sitting there lost in their own thoughts and watching the sky and looking at all of the different scenery, it’s impactful to you. We sat like that for hours and that was a special time and a special area.

I would love to see that. Even your photo, you can send it but it still won’t be the same.

Exactly, it won’t be.

We’re just going to have to take your word for it. Any final thoughts about things we should know about the Mummy Range?

Go out there and do it. I feel you’ve asked some very good questions in order for people to get the feel to whether this is the right trip for them or not. I have stated before, I love photography. I did come away with more keepers from a photography standpoint from this trip than I have from others just because it is so beautiful.

 

What’s next on Paula’s radar for adventure travel?

The John Muir Trail, I’m going to do that. That’ll be 23 days of backpacking, which will be the longest backpacking trip I’ve ever taken. I’m looking forward to it but I’m also apprehensive. I also am looking at 2020 perhaps going to Peru and making a long-distance backpacking trip out there. Perhaps to Bhutan and maybe Bolivia.

If you go to Bhutan, I can recommend the guide that we used there because I went to Bhutan. It was the spring of 2018. It was a wonderful trip. I’m going in October of 2020 but to the more tropical areas.

That’s one of the ones that I’m looking at right now. There are a couple of different ones that are being offered and I’m narrowing it down. I can only make two trips per year usually. I’m torn between this Peru trip and Bolivia when they’re both on my radar. The altitude of flying into Bolivia, that’s the highest altitude airport of any in the world that has me a little bit nervous about it, and then Bhutan. Those are the top three. I’m not sure. Do you have any episodes on them?

I do, as a matter of fact. I have two on Bhutan, Part I and Part II. I’m interviewing Bolivia soon. That will be out soon. There’s a little bit of Bolivia too on the Peru adventure. Are you going to be doing Machu Picchu?

Machu Picchu would be an add on if I did it. It’s not part of the trip, but if you’re that close, you’ve got to go see it.

You might as well. Even if you don’t, you can bus up to it but I think the four-day trek. That and the Mont Blanc in Europe are the two most popular episodes I’ve done, until this one, Paula.

I’ve done the tour in Mont Blanc, too. That’s quite beautiful as well. I would love to learn more about different areas from some of your episodes so I can help make an educated decision about what I want to do next.

I appreciate you coming back on and I’d love to have you come back. You have some great stories and flesh out what the places look like. I’m anxious to keep up on your travels.

Thank you very much for inviting me, Kit. I appreciate it and I enjoy spending the time talking with you about these trips and reliving them.

I asked Paula if she’d come back on the show after she made the John Muir Trail. We are going to chat when I get back from my trip and we’ll get that out soon. I’m excited about that. That’s a very challenging trail. It’s also very difficult to get a permit to go on it, so we’re going to learn how she’s done that and how that whole thing works because it’s supposed to be a spectacular adventure. I’m super stoked to hear about all that.

In thinking about this interview with Paula, I want you to notice one thing about that, a couple of things. First of all, if you have not been to the website ActiveTravelAdventures.com, you want to go check out the photos. As we said a couple of times during the show, landscape photos don’t do justice to what you see. If they are anywhere near as beautiful as the photos that she submitted, I want to go here. It is pretty. I love the idea that you’re totally out there and you will feel so small and you won’t see any people. I think that would be an extraordinary experience. I like to and I want you to notice too is she keeps stepping up. The activities and the challenges and stepping herself a little bit out of that comfort zone, making the John Muir twenty-some-odd day backpacking trip from doing the seven-day that she did with the Wind River.

She keeps up in her game, which I see more and more people doing as they get more and more into adventure travel because it gives you such a good feeling about yourself. I encourage you to get out there and take that next step, push yourself a little bit outside your comfort zone because you’re going to love it. Funny enough, I didn’t realize this when I was talking to Paula, but the next episode that comes out on this show is going to be Bolivia. That adventure was so extraordinary and we went so long. I’m going to break that into two parts unexpectedly. We’re going to start the Bolivia adventure. Paula, wait for that and you all wait for that. That should be super fun. Next on the companion show, The Adventure Travel Show, we’re going to explore how you learn how to backpack.

I don’t do a lot of backpacking on the show because a lot of people don’t want to carry the weight, but for those of you that do want to learn how to do that and what’s involved, stay tuned for that. I’ll see you back here on this, the Active Travel Adventures show on Bolivia. I want to give a shout out to Noma who wrote to tell me that she’s been bingeing on the show, which I thank you very much Noma. Also to congratulate her for stepping out of her comfort zone and doing her first solo adventure in 2018. That went so well that this time she’s going to go to two countries on her trip. Also for Casey, who’s plugging away in Colorado and reading all the episodes. He’s recommending we all get to Norway.

I’m going to look into finding some more hikes in Norway besides the St. Olav Ways that we covered. Also out to Bill who’s done several long-distance hikes and perhaps I can get him on the show and tell us about some of his adventures as well. I appreciate everybody writing in. It means the world to me when I do get your emails. I got a favor to ask you. I’m still trying to figure out where I want to go in 2020 and I’d like your suggestions. If you wouldn’t mind popping me an email at Kit@ActiveTravelAdventures.com, let me know some places you’d like me to cover. I’m looking for some inspiration and let me know where you’ve been and a little bit about yourself. I love hearing from you. Until next time, thanks for reading. Adventure on.

 

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