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Pony Packs the Colorado Trail

In 2015, I took my first long-distance hike (not counting the 50-miler I did in the Black Hills of South Dakota with the

The climb up Fooses Creek is long and unyielding. The last mile is steep.

Boy Scouts at age 12) on the Colorado Trail, inspired by my friend Sparkle and her dog Jude (RIP), as well as Cheryl Strayed‘s memoir, “Wild” and the Reese Witherspoon film based on the book.

For my money, the “CT” is an excellent way to find out if you like long-distance hiking, with an extremely high ratio of reward to effort.

“Pony Packs the Colorado Trail” is the story of my hike.

Clay Bonnyman Evans is a freelance writer who lives in South Carolina and Colorado. In his career as a journalist, he wrote for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register and Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.) His book, "Bones of My Grandfather," will be published by Skyhorse Publishing in July 2018. It is the story of his grandfather, First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., who was killed in the battle of Tarawa on Nov. 22, 1943 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Since 2010, Evans has been involved with efforts to recover Marine remains from Tarawa with nonprofit History Flight, Inc. He was present in May 2015 for the discovery and exhumation of his grandfather, who was reinterred in Knoxville, Tennessee in September 2015. More.

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