What about copying and pasting into a word document. I thin at would work.
This is your first journal entry. Is this what you are talking about?
I have decided to through hike the Colorado trail this Summer starting at the Denver terminus with a start date between June 23rd and July 1st. I am a teacher so must finish my hike by August 11th ready for school to start on the 13th.
I have been backpacking for seven or eight years and completed my first longish distance hike last Summer when I hiked northbound on the Centennial trail in south Dakota and looped back to the start on the Michelson trail (a railtrail). Total distance was about 200 miles, I had company and enjoyed every minute of it. I had attempted it the previous year alone but quit about halfway through after a series of setbacks. I have since figured out that every day has setbacks and adversity followed by highlights and elation and the trick is to give it a day ot two before deciding to quit.
It is my ambition to through hike the Appalachian Trail one year then the Pacific Crest Trail the next but this will have to wait until I retire (three to five years from now).
It appears that I will hike the Colorado trail alone, and this is my only concern. I find that I am not inclined to like multiple days without conversation or company. I hope I meet other hikers on the trail or at camp but all my past experiences of backpacking I seemed to be the only person on the trail ( we did not encounter another hiker on more than 100 miles of the Centennial trail and only a few bicyclists on the Michelson)
I have recently received the Colorado Trail Guide, pack guide and topo software package and am studying them in detail. More later as I get the details worked out.
A trailjournal is a new activity for me and I expect my experience writing one will have me more accomplished when I attempt the AT a few years hence.
RichardD
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