The final segment of the Collegiate West wasn’t too bad. I believe my willingness to take out my camera has gone down though. I am definitely taking less pictures than before.

I am still doing an amazing job of hitchhiking on the “tough hitch” roads of Colorado. I got to the trailhead and started pumping out the miles by pretty early in the day. 

While still staring down rain, this segment’s attraction is the collapsed Alpine Tunnel.

This crazy tunnel was 1,800+ feet long, but the winters were tough on the workers and there were all sorts of danger, take a moment and read this next picture!

As far as mileage goes, I can’t say I know scat how far I went, but the slope was a gentle downhill following the old railway.

Oh, and I discovered the spy for the Yellow-bellied marmot cause…

Side note, turns out that marmots have their own dialects as this breed sounds different from the marmots of Washington state. 

Side side note, I hope I’m spelling marmot correctly…