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2024_HappySnaps_0388.jpgShannon takes a dip during lunch. | Day 68 7/28/24 Three Sisters Wilderness, OR
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2024_HappySnaps_0411.jpgShannon plays the part of friendly hitchiker while leaving Sisters. | Day 71 7/31/24 Sisters, OR
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2024_HappySnaps_0414.jpgLooking south at the Three Sisters from Belknap Crater. | Day 71 7/31/24 Mt. Jefferson Wilderness, OR
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2024_HappySnaps_0420.jpgMt. Jefferson as seen from the beautiful Jefferson Park. | Day 75 8/4/24 Mt. Jefferson Wilderness, OR
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2024_HappySnaps_0430.jpgShannon takes a dip in Head Lake. | Day 75 8/4/24 Ollalie Lake, OR
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2024_HappySnaps_0439.jpgMt. Hood as seen from the banks of the mighty Sandy River. | Day 79 8/8/24 Mt. Hood Wilderness, OR
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2024_HappySnaps_0464.jpgShannon waits for the bus with a teddy bear that she found on the trail, and hiked out in the name of Leave No Trace. | Day 89 8/18/24 Frisco, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0466.jpgShannon poses with her dougnut tower that I constructed for her birthday in a very quaint hotel room. | Day 89 8/18/24 Frisco, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0470.jpgNiccolo, a coworker and dear friend enjoys a doughnut leftover from Shannon's birthday doughnut tower on the bus to the Whole Foods. Niccolo was about halfway done with his thru-hike of the CDT when we met up with him. | Day 90 8/19/24 Frisco, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0471.jpgNiccolo, Shannon and I pose on a bench outside of the REI while munching on some high quality town food. | Day 90 8/19/24 Silverthorne, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0480.jpgBjorn tends to the "first fire of winter" on a stormy day at his house in Leadville. Niccolo continued on the CDT from Frisco and met us in town, just in time to avoid the rain. | Day 92 8/21/24 Leadville, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0499.jpgShannon trying to be the newest Dr. Bronners backcountry rep. | Day 94 8/23/24 Roosevelt National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0510.jpgShannon is tempted by an aisle of cookies, despite the ziploc bag of healthy leaves in her hand. | Day 96 8/25/24 Winter Park, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0521.jpgShannon ascends a ridgeline on the Continental Divide. | Day 97 8/26/24 Arapaho National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0554.jpgShannon, Bjorn and I before we departed for the next stretch. | Day 100 8/29/24 Leadville, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0557.jpgShannon enjoys one of the dozen hard boiled eggs she packed out while hitchhiking to Cottonwood Pass. | Day 100 8/29/24 Twin Lakes, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0571.jpgShannon shows off that beautiful smile! | Day 100 8/29/24 San Isabel National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0578.jpgUpper and Lower Hancock Lakes. | Day 101 8/30/24 San Isabel National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0589.jpgShannon and Lebowski prance in the Western Colorado University parking lot. | Day 102 8/31/24 Gunnison, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0592.jpgLebowski poses on the Paradise Divide. | Day 103 9/1/24 White River National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0635.jpgPer Lebowskis request, we try to pose on the shore of Yule Lake. | Day 104 9/2/24 White River National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0656.jpgShannon broke Lebowskis prized backyard chair. | Day 106 9/4/24 Gunnison, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0665.jpgElk Creek Canyon. | Day 108 9/6/24 Weminuche Wilderness, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0676.jpgShannon poses at the entrance to an abandoned mine shaft. | Day 108 9/6/24 Weminuche Wilderness, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0685.jpgTwin Sisters at sunset. | Day 109 9/7/24 San Juan National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0700.jpgThe Animas River as seen on our ride on the Durango-Silverton Narrow Guage Railroad. | Day 114 9/12/24 San Juan National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0733.jpgShannon makes one of the final climbs of the day out of Spencer Basin. | Day 115 9/13/24 San Jaun National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0746.jpgShannon atop Trinity Lake Pass. | Day 116 9/14/24 San Jaun National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0826.jpgShannon enjoys the view from the top of our climb up a sub peak of Windom Peak. | Day 117 9/15/24 San Jaun National Forest, CO
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2024_HappySnaps_0845.jpgPeak 13,472 towers above the Chicago Basin. | Day 117 9/15/24 San Jaun National Forest, CO
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