"The soul wants it all"

Dan and Elaine and the snowman on top of Triple Divide Pass in Glacier National Park.
Water on Dan's side flows into the Atlantic. On Elaine's side, it drops into Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean.

Dan and Elaine - my brother and his wife, and friends and occasional Colorado contributors to Head in the Clouds Amherst - complete the last leg of their thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail (3,000 miles, 6 months!), passing through Glacier National Park. They are wrapped in clouds, calf-deep in snow (and ecstatic about that), have a close encounter with a grizzly, and build a snowman on top of Triple Divide Pass. And there's so much more. Follow along with their latest blog post, this one by Elaine. A hike summary will follow once they've had a chance to process everything. (I, for one, am curious about the transition back to civilization. It's gotta be tough.)

They're already planning their next adventure, of course. As Elaine puts it, We are not satisfied – I think the desire for adventure was a small flame, and we just poured gasoline on it. More, more – more wild, more mountains, more rivers, more vastness. The soul wants it all.