TMB Day 5: One Hell of a Drug

July 28, 2024 Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti (then bus back to Courmayeur) 7.6 miles  Today is an easy day, and we’re slackpacking, and we’re staying in the same place tonight. So there isn’t much of a rush this morning to get up. The ability to spread out in my own extremely comfortable bed after the …

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TMB Day 4: Am I in Heaven? 

July 27, 2024 Rifugio Elisabetta to Courmayeur  9.8 miles  Rifugio Elisabetta may have been hell, but everything else has been heaven. This morning is especially so—after we escape, that is.  I didn’t end up going rogue last night; I dilly-dallied as long as I could in the restroom and then accepted my fate and climbed …

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