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		<title>Maroon Bells Four Pass Loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m baaaaack! It&#8217;s been a long 10 years since my last Colorado adventure. Since then I lost over 6 years of my life to a severe illness, spent 2 years recovering thanks to the Gerson Therapy, and then moved to Colorado last year. This was my first big adventure in the backcountry since moving to [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=2236</link>
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		<title>Colorado 2013, How I Got the Snot Kicked Out of Me by the Altitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2011, I hiked the 500 mile Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango. It was the best 5 weeks of my life. (Read about it from the beginning.) So, when the Colorado Trail Foundation added another 80+ miles on to the trail this year, I HAD to hike it. It looked like it would rival [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=2093</link>
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		<title>Snowboarding in Colorado &#8211; 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DrupalCon just happened to take place in my favorite place this year &#8211; Colorado! Spent 3 days taking notes and absorbing everything Drupal. Then headed off to Leadville and 2 days of snowboarding at Cooper Mountain. This video sums up my first ever snowboarding experience:]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=2075</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail &#8211; Post Hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over 3 months since I stepped off the Colorado Trail. (Read about my adventure from the beginning.) I miss it every single day. I miss the simplicity of the lifestyle, of having just the bare essentials and being thankful for them, of being so tuned in with my senses. I miss waking up [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1641</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail – Day 40 (22.5 miles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sauntered through the first 4 miles of the day. I was tired from yesterday&#8217;s 23 miles, yes, but mostly I just wanted to savor the last time I&#8217;d be above treeline. I climbed over Kennebec Pass and receded down into the trees and retreated into my head. The miles passed by in a fog&#8230;a [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1639</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail – Day 39 (23 miles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My feet were on the trail but my head was not. My mind is starting to return home, thinking of all the things I need to do when I get back. Up until about 3 that is, when the storms rolled in again and I still had 2 exposed summits to go over. i watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1637</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail – Day 38 (13.5 miles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spent the day leap-frogging with Jonathon, a biker from Florida struggling with the altitude and putting on and taking off my rain gear. Storms rolled in early &#8211; started raining before I even got up. I waited for half an hour until rain stopped before even getting out of my tent. Then things seemed like [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1635</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail – Day 37 (15 miles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got moving around 8 and went for breakfast at the Brown Bear. Back to the hotel, pack and hitch a ride to the trail. On the trail by 10. It was a pleasant hike until 1:00 when I had to go over the pass in a thunderstorm. I am sooo paranoid about getting struck by [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1633</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail – Day 36 (11 miles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got up at the crack of dawn and packed by headlamp since I was still in the gorge and the sun hadn&#8217;t risen enough to even illuminate the steep valley. Made it into Silverton by 12:30 with a thunderstorm at my heels for the last 2 hours. Got a hitch into town with a 3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1631</link>
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		<title>Colorado Trail – Day 35 (19 miles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woke up to a heavy frost on everything, especially the tent. Water bottles were partly frozen. Ended up packing the tent in its stuff sack with a nice snow ball in the center. That would later come back to haunt me. Long day of ups and downs. Nice part about it was there was an [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://www.micksmisc.com/?p=1628</link>
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