3 average backpackers take on some of the highest elevation hiking in the US on the Colorado Trail. We set out for a long trip, but with injuries and Rocky Mountain lightning storms, we couldn't make it as far as we'd hoped.

0:00 Part 1 of 2
0:22 Hiking the Appalachian Trail 2019
1:07 Weighing my food and bag
1:46 GEAR LIST
3:20 Colorado Trail
5:35 Things start going DOWNHILL
6:53 What NOT to do
8:56 Sushi dinner! .. Kind of
10:24 The first morning
13:24 Plant ID
14:48 BOW TO THE BIKES
16:25 Long way to go
19:45 Racing storms
21:12 Curry dinner!
24:34 Hiking on my own
27:35 The final hours
28:40 What went wrong


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