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My Colorado Trail Psychedelic Experiment * 5
    #25367998 - 08/05/18 10:40 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I am in the process of walking a 500 mile trail in Colorado. During the trail I’m using psychedelics to help explore my inner psyche, nature, life, and the world. Here is the first segment of my hike. I hope you enjoy.

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Date: July 30
Miles: 24.75
Mushrooms: .5g with breakfast, .5g at 9am (junction creek), 1 gram at first mountain pass, 1 gram at ridge after Taylor lake

Trip report:
I could start to feel the first half gram coming on before I even finished breaking camp. This seems to always be the case when I eat them with breakfast. The trip itself was not strong, but it was an attitude adjustment for the better. I noticed that my perception of color was increased slightly. I noticed them a bit more about an hour later when I stopped at Junction Creek to filter water, but they were not a problem for me. If anything they just made me appreciate the small details there along the trail.

I decided to eat another half gram at that time, and enjoyed it even more along my climb up to the first mountain pass this morning. It was a very good choice to make today my first mushroom day. It broke the tension and stress of having them in my backpack and reminded me of why I carry them.

At the top of the mountain pass I could not believe how beautiful the country was and ate another gram with lunch. I laughed a bit to myself, because as I finished lunch a family of three came up and made conversation with me while I popped another half gram in my mouth (total of one gram at lunch), but the way that I have packed them, they just look like an ordinary supplement. By this point I was already “up” from the first gram and just enjoyed the ride on my way to Taylor Lake. Once I arrived there I had a huge smile on my face and promptly stripped off my clothes and went swimming. It was among the best things that I’ve done so far on trail. I probably could have had another gram there, but two hikers and their dog joined me after I had redressed. I was quite high at this point, but I was absolutely able to carry on a conversation with them, and if anything they probably just thought that I was an especially happy and enthusiastic hiker (which I was... but I was also quite high on psychedelic mushrooms).

From there I climbed another couple of thousand feet to a couple of very high up ridge lines above the timberline. To even begin to put words to the beauty would be impossible.

An hour or so later I consumed my last one gram for the day. These ones did not affect me much, having been tripping on the other two grams through the day, but it did make me notably happy and appreciative of the trail, the colors, my dinner, and eventually the sunset. At dinner I talked with two southbound hikers who remarked that they were considering taking LSD tomorrow and I told them that they absolutely should. I also told them to swim in that lake while they peak. I hope that they do and I hope that they enjoy it.

The sunset tonight was to die for. Since there is so much smoke on the horizon from the fires, it made the sunset glow a cherry pink. I set up my camp just in time to catch the last bit of it and spend some time writing.

Depending on my mood tomorrow I may take a tab of acid.

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Date: August 1
Miles: 23.4
Dose: 1.5 tab LSD

I started my day with breakfast and washed down my oatmeal with tea followed promptly by one and a half tabs of LSD. Ultimately I am exceedingly grateful that I made this choice this morning. Although I had been eating mushrooms throughout the day yesterday, I was still impacted by the acid. It wasn’t a heavy trip, but that was for the better. If I hadn’t been tripping yesterday and knew that this would be a full on LSD trip, I would have approached the dose with a lot more trepidation.

I have taken LSD plenty of times in the past. I have done long distance backpacking in the past. I have hiked while taking LSD, but today was my first time on acid while on a long distance backpacking trip. It’s funny because I have so much experience with mushrooms on long distance trails, but this was still a bit different. I’m glad that I had been tripping yesterday because it gave me the courage to take the LSD today (knowing that it would be a light dose), but in hindsight, I had such a pleasant experience, that I only wish that it could have been a full on LSD trip. This is good though, because it has given me the bravery to take a dose at full strength later on during this trail. I’ll be out here for a month or so, and no doubt there will be sunny days ahead :smile:

The come up was slight and easy. For that first hour I could feel some slight uneasiness that I always seem to feel when taking acid, maybe a bit more so on account that this was my first time doing it on a long trail, but by the end of hour two, it was absolutely nothing but bliss. Visuals were slight, but not overwhelming. I could catch some movement off in the horizon and in the trees, but mostly it was a turning up of the colors around me and a supreme appreciation for life and this hike.

I arrived at the end of a 20 mile waterless stretch towards the end of the acid peak, and there were two other hikers there. No doubt, they thought that I was a bit weird, but I’m weird even without psychedelics. I did have some trouble organizing my thoughts around what to do and in what order to do it (needed to eat some food, needed to bathe, needed to clean my clothes, needed to dry my clothes, needed to filter water), but after the other two hikers left, I was able to figure it all out without any problem.

I took a bath in that ice cold stream and it felt amazing. The meal I ate there was delicious too. I felt like I was in heaven.

After a climb up over a mountain pass after the spring (can’t even put words to all the beauty), I eventually found a small pond, stripped off all my clothes, and went for a swim. This was my second full day on the trail and my second psychedelic swim of the Colorado Trail. A part of me wishes that I could have redosed at the mountain pass, but I did not do so specifically because I didn’t want to burn out my brain. In other words, I wanted to have some trips in the upcoming week, so I didn’t want to overdo it today.

The sunset tonight was absolutely unreal! It was among the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen in my life! Since there is still smoke on the horizon from the fires near Durango that only recently went out, the sun burned this neon pink color for almost two hours while I hiked up a mountain ridge and ate dinner.

Oh! Almost forgot a kind of funny detail of the psychedelic swim. Right as I was getting my naked ass out of that pond a dude wandered down the trail upon me. He kept his distance and I asked that he excuse my indecency. He was cool and we kind of talked at a distance while I dried off and put on some shorts.

I only wish that I could trip like this every day out here for my month in Colorado, but there is a chance that weather could be coming in tomorrow, so it might be best that I let my brain rest for at least a day or two. Be assured however that in the coming week I’ll be back at it, and likely will do the same that I did yesterday and today, which is to say one day of mushrooms and one day of LSD. I’ll only be making one change though: up the dose!

Lastly I should mention that I met some hikers today who recommended Lake Anne. It’s a week or so in my future at least, but they said that I have to plan on camping there. Based on that recommendation, I think that I know where I’ll be taking the one dose of MDMA that I’ve brought with me on trail. It will be my first time in my life taking the substance, and I’m looking forward to it. My only curiosity is whether or not to mix LSD with my first MDMA experience. I have time to think about it I suppose.

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Date: August 3
Miles: 25.2
Dose: 2g with breakfast; 1 gram w lunch

Although I have only been out here for five days now, I can say with certainty that the trip that I had this morning was the most profound of my hike on the Colorado Trail so far. It wasn’t a “world spinning”, loss of ego sort of trip at all, but in terms of its impact on my thinking and view of life, it was very powerful.

It’s funny too because I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. Since I had two back to back days with mushrooms, and then LSD earlier this week, and the LSD trip was so muted by the mushrooms the day before, I wasn’t sure how this would go being that I only had one day in between. So to be honest I was only going to have 1.5 grams with breakfast, but I figured that I had not fully recovered from the other two trips yet (only had one full day in between them), so I took an extra half gram. A half hour later, as I made my way down the trail I was pretty sure that I was going to have no effect whatsoever, but holy hell I was wrong!

About 45 minutes after eating them I could start to feel myself coming up, and an hour in I knew that the trip was going to be full force. It was as if I had not had psychedelics earlier in the week at all!

Early into the trip I walked by a trail junction that would have led to Molas Lake. I wanted to go out to it to go swimming, as swimming has become a big part of my hiking this trail, but the day was early and I thought that it might be too cold. Also it was a little way off trail, so I walked by about 25 yards before stopping in my tracks, turning around, and walking back to the trail junction. I didn’t want to have any regrets, and I’m so glad that I did turn back, because this became one of the highlights of my trip on the Colorado Trail so far.

The detour was only about a quarter mile off the main route, so it wasn’t that far out of the way, and although there were a few other people around the lake camping and rowing kayaks, I figured that they were far enough away, so I stripped into my birthday suit, right as the mushrooms began to peak, and jumped into Molas Lake. The water was chilly at first, but I warmed up to it quickly, and as soon as I was in there I knew that I had made the right choice. The smile on my face could only have been measured in miles. It was bliss beyond bliss.

After about ten minutes in the after, I got out, and heard a kayaker behind me remark to her friend, “oh my god! That guy is butt naked! I was going to go and talk to him, but maybe not.” I wan’t being indecent or anything, and she couldn’t see my dangalang because I made a point to try and at least be somewhat respectful to the others on the lake. I yelled back at her (don’t think she realized I could hear her), “You can still come visit, but it might be kind of awkward. Not long after that—maybe a minute later—I heard a very aggressive holler from the other side of the lake where there were some tents. It was probably an eighth or quarter mile away. He shouted and said, “Hey! Put some clothes on you damn hippy!” And then someone else at the campsite did the 1920’s whistle that sounds like “whoo, hoo.”

It was a glorious moment in my life to be called a “damn hippy” and I want to stress that I was far enough away that nobody could see my donger. But they could see that I didn’t have shorts on, so I think that it was kind of funny. I dried myself off and redressed and went back to the trail, fully aware of how hard I was tripping on the mushrooms.

I was smiling ear to ear. I felt amazing, and the scenery was absolutely gorgeous. You see, most of my life Ive actuallly been really self conscious of my body, but out here I’ve worked hard to let that go and just accept who I am. Those people had never seen me before, and they’ll never see me again. And to boot, I was far enough away that even if they had to pick me out of a lineup they wouldn’t be able to. It was a very profound moment in my life there this morning to realize that I’m finally comfortable in my own skin and that I’m not afraid of the judgment of others.

After the swim the trail descended way down into the Anamas river valley. I was very introspective over that section of the hike. I almost turned on my voice recorder to try to capture some of it, but it’s hard to put into words. In short, I had an understanding of my purpose in life, what I’m doing, where I’m going, and where I see myself in the coming years. I met a few hikers along the way, and I’m glad that I wasn’t so high that I couldn’t interact with them, but I was high enough that it would have been hard to spend more than a couple of minutes in their company.

At lunch I ate another gram which basically just extended the already beautiful trip. The trail climbed from 9000 feet elevation to almost 13,000 by the afternoon. I swam in a pond towards the end of my trip, and there was a moose at the other end of it who didn’t seem to mind my being there. I would have spent more time in that one, but the water in there was literally painfully cold. As the trail climbed higher and above the tree line it brought me to views that were literally the best that I’ve seen on the Colorado Trail so far. Beautiful wildflowers, amazing mountains, and awesome monsoon clouds rolling in.

It rained off and on through the afternoon, but by then I was pretty well down from the trip, which was only a bit of a shame because the sunset tonight was to die for. I would have set up camp early and watched it, but I need to average 25 miles a day for the next two days so that I can catch a shuttle into my resupply town.

Lesson to take home from today: one day’s rest is absolutely enough between psychedelic trips out here.

Looking forward to my next trip and report. It will probably be three or four day though because I expect rain tomorrow through most of the day, and the day after I’m going into a resupply town where I’ll stay the night, go through pictures and videos, and post my writings (like this one).

Love.

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That is the end of segment one. I am only working on my phone right now, so writing is hard and posting is hard in between trail segments. I’ll come back and post photos and add more detail when the trail is all said and done. Thanks for reading!


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Re: My Colorado Trail Psychedelic Experiment [Re: TheScientificMethod]
    #25370714 - 08/06/18 05:46 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I like what I am seeing here.  Awesome! I have friends who have completed the Colorado trail, and I myself want to give it a shot. I hear it rains every day at least once.

I took L on a long distance hike one time. It was 5pm and I was at a shelter just below Mt. Mansfield in VT.  An hour after I took it a large group of youth campers showed up and they were missing one of their counselors because she had never hiked the Green Mountains and had no idea what she was getting into. They were dehydrated, blowing whistles, and their leadership was godawful. I was tripping just watching them, and I decided to offer them all of my electrolite packets since the kids were dizzy and the counselors looked at me like I was crazy. I spent the rest of the trip contemplating responsibility, and the next day was filled with afterglow, and a bit of disappointment in the kids leadership.

Anyway, this is your hike not mine.

I wish you luck and happy hiking! Looking forward to your posts.


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Re: My Colorado Trail Psychedelic Experiment [Re: Nataraja_Shiva]
    #25371142 - 08/06/18 09:02 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Awesome experiences so far man! I'm excited to hear more


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    #25371148 - 08/06/18 09:04 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Excellent.

I'm about half way through reading your journeys.

It's been a vicarious blast.


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    #25371469 - 08/07/18 12:27 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Good luck man, i'll be following your updates :thumbup:


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    #25371470 - 08/07/18 12:30 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/remlinker.php?Cat=&Entry=182890&F_Board=1&Thread=22821699&Main=22471747
"Walking 2650 miles on psychedelics"

Here is a link to some more of his story if you haven't already I can recommend.


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    #25371503 - 08/07/18 01:07 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Sending good vibes. I’m at Mt. Raineir and the trails here are a bit harder than what we have on the east coast

Makes sense, it’s a fuckin mountain be safe and have fun


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    #25376399 - 08/09/18 02:55 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I didn't read your whole post. Maybe half of it but it sounds awesome. I love hiking and nature more than anything. The first time I tripped in nature was a few months ago. I did 2 feet of San Pedro.

I went to this spot by a slough in the forest preserves. It is very beautiful there. I seen 3 coyotes. I was by their den. Seen the biggest raccoon I have ever seen. A deer walked up about 10 feet behind me. A hawk flew right over my head. So many other big birds were flying around. A chipmunk was in the tree right next to me.

I was just chilling with my dog soaking in all the beauty not thinking about anything. 2 times I was brought to tears from the overwhelming emotions I felt. Complete joy to be able to experience such beauty. It was the most fulfilling experience of my life.

I would love to do what you are doing but I have a dog and she is getting old and couldn't handle that much hiking. I couldn't go without her and leave her behind.

I almost quit my job 9 years ago to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. When my dog is gone maybe I will do it. Would be fucking epic.

I was at Rocky Mountain National Park last year. It is very beautiful there.


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    #25378402 - 08/09/18 09:50 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Hey everyone; thank you so much for the feedback. I’d like to emphasize that the is only the first of much too come, and this is just stuff that I’ve been writing in my tent at the end of long days on the trail. Once I get back home after this journey I’m planning to do a much more thorough recap and explan what I gained from the experience.

But in short I have found the Colorado Trail to be a much bigger success for me than the PCT I’ve been able to eat A LOT more psychedelics out here, and I’ve gained a really good relationship with them. They have become the new nom for me out here, and I’ve had more das tripping than I have had days sober. It’s taught me A LOT about myself and about life and my relationship with nature. I’m excited to share when It’s all said and done.

I’ll leave it there for now though, suffice to say that I’m in my next trail town now, and will have all day tomorrow to rest and post my next set of trip reports. Here’s a prequel: It involves getting naked on top of a 14,014 foot tall mountain while peaking on mushrooms :smile:

Will post a link to that in this thread tomorrow.

Thanks again for the feedback.  It means the world to me, and I think of you all every day as I’m out there losing my mind.

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    #25383178 - 08/12/18 09:24 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I’m loving this thread!


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    #25384175 - 08/12/18 06:02 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

This does indeed sound like its turning out even better than your pacific crest trail journey! I look forward to your next update. Off on a journey of my own down here in South Australia tomorrow. Going to a holiday home on a nearby island instead of an epic hike and mainly weed instead of psychedelics. Will take some mushrooms though. Small hikes.

You inspire me to try something like this someday, with or without the psychedelics. Safe travels man!


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    #25389336 - 08/15/18 05:11 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Wish he’d update more..


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    #25393268 - 08/16/18 07:40 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

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Wish he’d update more..




DUDE! Gotta give a brotha a break! I’m out in the woods for this whole thing. Only get cell service every seven to ten days. I’ve posted chapter 2 and will have chap 3 ready soon. I’ll post a full recap when I am done w the trail in 10 days too.

Did you read chapter 2?


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    #25410092 - 08/24/18 01:52 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I have just finished the 26 day hike that was 525 miles long and stretched from Durango to Denver. I found that my journey on the Colorado Trail was much more successful in terms of my ability to use psychedelics along the way. On the PCT I was using mushrooms or DMT about every week, but on the Colorado Trail I used them 61% of the days that I was on trail, and almost every day that I used them I dosed and redosed and usually redosed again.

I hope you enjoy, and I’d love to hear your feedback if you make it through the whole thing.

Here’s the link: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25410077/vc/1#25410077


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