Finally a picture of some of my hiking buddies.
On the left is Lena from Germany. The Continental Divide Trail is her first backpacking trip ever. She's 26 and has been doing some world travel and thought the best way to see the US was to see the wilderness here so somebody told her the CDT was the prettiest trail so off she went. She was very lonely at first and spent a month trying to catch up to Scott and Nancy, having seen their names in trail registers along the way.
I'm in the middle.
On the right is Eric. In the last 2 years Eric has hiked 10,000 miles. He's hiked the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, the Florida Trail, the Arizona Trail and by this point, 2000 miles of the Continental Divide Trail. He was very quiet, a man of very few words, but the words he spoke were always extremely intelligent or profound or hilarious. He had been a language expert for the military.