MyDreamWalk

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Coldfoot

I walk hard all day completing 22.5 miles. I feel I have earned the right to drive 70 miles to Coldfoot camp for a hot meal and a warm bed. Oh, I also took a shower!

Coldfoot, mile #175 on the Dalton Road. This was a former mining camp during the gold rush era. The saloons and dance hall girls re gone. Now Coldfoot is a truck stop. It is still 240 mile south to the next meal and bed along the desolated Dalton. College students here for the summer are the staff. The temperature was 60 degrees below zero in its worst winter. Once, summer temperatures reached 98.

I spend four nights in Coldfoot walking more than 20 miles each day and eating like a king, I convince myself, at night.

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