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My Colorado Trail Psychedelic Experiment (Chapter 3)
    #25393325 - 08/16/18 08:11 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)



Aug 16
Miles: 22.6
Dose: 2 grams mushrooms

What’s funny to me is that after the one gram having almost no effect yesterday, I didn’t think that taking two grams this morning would do all that much. Even after I took the dose, one hour into it, I was thinking to myself, “Okay, this is kind of what I was thinking would happen. A little bit of heavy pattern recognition, turning up of the colors, some different thinking... yada yada yada... nothing to write home about.”

That was an hour into it, but then an hour and a half, or maybe an hour and fourth five minutes into it, I realized that although I was not having a trip of nearly the profundity that I got last time I took two grams (one must remember that that was after two days of no psychedelics and I think that eating an orange with them made them kick in for me a bit heavier than I was expecting), I still found myself in a very strong and strange place.

It wasn’t that the visuals were especially heavy, but the *thinking* was shifted in a big way. When I took two grams last time it put me in direct contact with this thing that I want to call “the self,” but this time, “the self” became the spokesperson of my consciousness. This was the first time that I actually took out my phone as I walked down the trail and I started voice recording the thoughts that were coming to me. It was really, really, really important stuff. I’ve been at a crossroads in my life as I’ve come out here on this one month long journey and although I’ve found a lot of answers out here on the trail, today was the first time that they were given to me so clearly. It was almost like “the self” or maybe it was the mushroom, was giving me word for word instructions on how to lead my life moving forward.

I want to be able to share more, but honestly, it was quite personal stuff that the mushroom gave me. In short however, Ive been wanting to put more of my time and energy into writing and hopefully make a living off of that in the long run. The mushroom today showed me how to do that. I’ve been trying to figure out how to funnel my passion for personal fitness and exercise into a career. The mushroom showed me how to do that. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a living out of hiking. The mushroom showed me how it’s possible.

I don’t want to say more than this, because I really want to put it into action first, but I’m excited... well... I was going to say that I’m excited for this trail to be done so that I can put these things into action, but that’s not right. What I want to say is that I want for this trail to go on forever. I’m loving it out here. But I know that it has to come to an end. Now however, I know that when it does come to an end I know what to do next with my life. The mushroom showed me this.

I love the point that I’ve reached on trail with the mushroom. I’ve developed a very special relationship with it and I’ve become very comfortable with it. I think that it must be like sky diving. Your first few times are scary, but the more you do it the more comfortable you become with it, even though you still respect how big an act you’re taking part in.

I have a couple more days before my next true trail town where I’ll rest. Once I’m there I’ll write back some more.

Lots of love.

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Aug 15
Miles: 24.02
Dose: 1 gram mushrooms

Today I ate a gram of mushrooms. It didn’t change the world, and I have to call this close to a microdose effect after the quantity of psychedelics I consumed yesterday. In the end there’s not much to report in this “trip report” so I’ll keep it extremely short and simple. But since I did eat some mushrooms this morning and it’s become my mission to document all my psychedelic intake along the trail, I feel obligated to at least make this little note.

That aside, I’d like to say that the day was absolutely amazing. I suspect that today will end up being the most physically demanding day on the entire Colorado Trail for me. I climbed to the top of the highest and second highest peaks in the state of Colorado, and still managed to cover 24 miles with a total of 9,103 feet of elevation gain. Needless to say I am completely exhausted and I’ll sleep well tonight.

I’m considering taking 2-2.5 grams of mushrooms tomorrow morning... although, now that I think of it, I also have a bit of LSD left. Maybe it’s time to bust that out again. I’ll report back either way.

Calling it a night though.

Be well my friends.

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Aug 14
Miles: 27.5
Dose: MDMA, then 2 grams of mushrooms

So Call the papers, write home to mom, someone hire one of those pilots who do sky writing behind their crop duster planes! I’m no longer a virgin. I have in my entire life never experienced MDMA before today. And today I can say that I am changed in that regard. It met my expectations in some ways, it did not meet them in others.

I did not take any psychedelics yesterday on purpose. I really wanted to, because the hiking was beautiful and I would have loved to be floating around on a mushroom buzz, but I knew that this morning I’d be taking my first dose of MDMA and I wanted to have a refractory day in between tripping mushrooms and taking the ecstasy.

There’s much to say about yesterday, but I have to keep it brief; it’s already late and I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow. So what I will say is that last night after 26 of the most grueling miles that I’ve seen on the Colorado Trail so far I arrived at Lake Anne, which I had been told by hikers to be the most beautiful lake of the trail. It did not disappoint. The water was ice cold, but I swam in it anyways, mostly because I needed to clean myself of the filth and grime from the last three days of hiking. And I decided that when I woke up today beside the shore of Lake Anne that I’d take this MDMA that I’ve literally had hanging around from a VERY trusted source for about a year and a half.

I slept really good last night and it felt a little bit like Christmas Eve. I woke up a couple of times and thought about the fact that I’d be taking it today.

So I woke up a bit early, broke my camp, and right before putting my pack on for the day I took out the tab of ecstasy, looked it over, and popped it into my mouth and down the hatch. Someone from Shroomery told me that I HAVE to listen to Shpongle while I’m on the dose, but the thing is that I dont listen to music while hiking anymore. So more as a blessing of the day I listened to two of my favorite Shpongle tracks as I threw on my backpack and started down the trail.

I want to tell you that my life was changed from the dose, but to be real with you, I was actually underwhelmed. I suspect that the dose itself was not high enough to give me the full blown effects, but what I did find was right in line with what people told me to expect. I felt fluffy, and lovey-dovey for no apparent reason (although it was obvious to me that it was from the drug) and I felt really really really happy. I guess that since mushrooms and LSD and DMT have had such profound effects on my life, I expected something more in line with the profundity of those substances, but instead I just felt really happy, and like my tattoo artist told me to expect: I felt like I was in love with life.

It was nice, no doubt, but it wasn’t overwhelmingly life changing or anything like that. I will say that I’m glad that I took the dose and broke that cherry so that now I know what it’s like, and I do look forward to trying it again, possibly at a higher dose next time, but it didn’t meet my expectations necessarily.

I think that you could suspect that the reason that I wasn’t heavily affected was because I’ve been taking so many psychedelics on the trail, but I don’t really think that was the case, because two and a half hours into the trip when I felt like the effects had leveled off, I decided to take some mushrooms, and they impacted me much more heavily than the MDMA.

It’s funny because I was planning on hiking into town today for my resupply at around 2pm, but at 10am I reached a trail junction that lead up to a 14,004 foot tall mountain, and I decided to climb it. The climb was brutal with my massive pack, so when I reached tree line, I dropped pack, ate an avocado and some honey, drank some water, and slack packed to the top. I was definitely still high from the MDMA, but my thinking felt very clear. Oh! Anyways, So i decided to take a gram of mushrooms at that point on my way up to the top of mount Heuron. I’m glad that I did. I felt them almost right away and they blended well with the MDMA. The mountain peak itself was outstanding and majestic. I felt like I was on top of the world, and pictures did it no justice whatsoever!

After being up there for about ten minutes and getting some pictures I scurried back down to where I’d left my pack, had some hemp seed powder, wheat grass powder, protein powder, more honey, and another gram of mushrooms. After that I proceeded to hike eight of what may have been the most pleasureful miles that I’ve found on the trail. By this point I felt like the MDMA had worn off, but the effects of the mushrooms were very profound in how they affected my thinking. I found myself looking over my life, as I so often do, and thinking about life after the trail and how I want to start training for a 100 mile ultra marathon when I return from the CT. I want hiking and running to be a main staple of my life from this point forward, and although Ill be sad to see an end to the Colorado trail which is now already half way done, I am excited for the next chapter in my life.

Okay... it’s way too late now and I really need to get to sleep. I’ve had two really big days in a row, and tomorrow will be another one because there are two 14,000ft peaks that I want to climb tomorrow—one of them being the highest point in the state of Colorado. I’ll probably bring mushrooms with me up there.

All the love in the world, and I’ll report back soon.

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Aug 12
Miles: 24.4
Dose: 4 grams (2g w breakfast, 1.5g 3 hours later, .5g 2 hours later)

Today is my first full day back on trail after taking a zero mile day in the town of Salida (Beautiful town and I needed the refeed), and getting back on trail yesterday to knock out ten miles. This stretch that I started yesterday afternoon is widely thought of as one of the most beautiful stretches of the Colorado Trail. It is called the Western Collegiate alternate, and ever since I started the hike people have been telling me to look forward to this 85 mile stretch through the high mountains of Colorado.

Considering who I am and how I have set out to hike this hike therefore, I knew that I’d be taking psychedelics during this stretch of the trail, and today that came to fruition. Today I also thought may have been the day that I finally took too much. It’s not even that I ate all that many mushrooms this morning, but their affect on me was quite heavier than I was expecting when I started out this morning.

I awoke early to a beautiful sunrise, broke down camp, ate breakfast, and then proceeded to pop two grams of mushrooms as I started my hike. It literally only just occurred to me in this moment, as I’m writing this right now, why it may have been that I was affected so heavily... I ate an orange with breakfast. I have to wonder if the citrus from that orange may have triggered the mushrooms to kick in a bit heavier than normal. Impossible to say maybe, but I do wonder.

Anyways, not long after the dose I found myself yawning a lot. I knew that this was a sign that the trip was probably going to be heavy. An hour after the dose is when the effects became especially pronounced, and I remember hiking along and saying to myself, “this next hour is going to give you some challenges.” It’s not that I wasn’t able to function or hike, but it was a bit more difficult than I thought I was signing up for when I took the dose. The visuals were quite a bit heavier than any trip that I”ve had on trail so far, and several times I remember stopping to try and take pictures, only to realize that what I was seeing with my own eyes was never going to show up in the photos the way that I was seeing it.

As I had been promised, this stretch of trail this morning was absolutely mind blowing! It reminded me of the Grand Tetons of Wyoming which I hiked on while tripping on mushrooms last year during the solar eclipse... wow... that was almost exactly a year ago now. There were beautiful forests that were punctuated by high alpine scenery, rivers, and beaver ponds.

I reached a point as I was hiking along and trying not to fall down (the trip was becoming heavy enough that keeping my balance was almost a challenge unto itself) where I met myself. I don’t even know how else to say it. But I realized that my body and my “self” are two very different things. I knew this before the trip, but I found it profoundly true in this moment. I saw the entity behind the curtain that is my... I don’t want to call it “soul” because it’s beyond the sould even. I looked at *him* for a moment only to realize that it wasn’t a *he* and that sex is only a representation of this body that my being inhabits. It’s really hard to put into words, but it was a really profound and spiritually fulfilling realization.

Not long after this I found myself looking at my life and trying to identify problems in how I live. I’ve made great progress in cleaning up my life in the last couple of years, but as I took an inventory during the trip, it came to my attention that I am obsessed with *doing* and that I’m not very good at just *being*. You see, I always need to be in the process of doing something. I hike, then I eat, then I filter water, then I eat, and then I hike some more, then I set up camp, then I write, then I sleep, then I wake, then I make breakfast... so on and so forth. I very rarely anymore just let myself be present.

It was funny for me to come to this realization because I was in the process of and continued *doing* during the realization. I was hiking and hiking and hiking, and so as if to make the realization into an actualization, I came to a river and I just sat down. I rarely if ever do that on these long hikes, but I was so enthralled with the experience that I just wanted and NEEDED to have a moment of presence, so I sat down beside this little stream and I shut my eyes and I listened. It was an immensely peaceful and enveloping experience. I wished that it could have lasted for longer, but I also knew that as important as it was to just be, I also needed to make miles because I have a goal of getting to a place called Lake Anne tomorrow. I may explain that more later.

One other thing that came from the trip today after I continued on past the river is this idea that I struggle to put words to (welcome to the psychedelic world...) which is this: I have been toying with the idea of writing a book called “The Way out is Thru” about how thru hiking has helped me to move past some of the harder parts in my life, but as i hiked through the mushroom trip today I realized that I don’t want out anymore. I am where I want to be. I have found the thing in life that makes me fulfilled and complete. The question that then replaced how to get “out” was “how do I get *in*?” How does someone really get to the core of their being? If the way out is to push thru, what happens when we realize that we want into the self and no longer out? As I put that on the page it feels like a gross oversimplification of something much larger, but like I said, it’s really hard to put into words.

The beauty of the miles that I hiked through today really cannot be overstated. The fact that I took the mushrooms today certainly helped my appreciation, but this land is absolutely magical. I hope that someday I can attach pictures to this post and share some of the scenery with you all, but I hope even more that you get the chance to come out here and see it for yourself.

Three hours after eating those first two grams I sat down for a snack by a small lake and ate another gram and a half. An hour or so later I had another gram. The peak of the experience only lasted for around 2 hours, but the redoseing helped extend the beauty and afterglow of the trip. I wished that it could have lasted all day, but I also knew that I needed to let this morning be special in its own way.

I know that I started this by saying that I may have thought that I took too much, but as I lay down tonight writing this, I want to emphasize that I absolutely did not! It was among the heaviest trips that I’ll probably have out here on this thru hike, but the profundity of the realizations and the lessons that I got out of it cannot be overstated. It was really powerful and helped me to see myself and my life in a new light. There is a lot more that came from the experience, but I need to keep this posting at least somewhat brief so that I have time to write another journal about the day that I can share with the general public.

In the very near future (tomorrow maybe?) I will be taking MDMA for the first time in my life. I have been waiting for this mountain range to do it, and I feel that the time is just about right. I look forward to reporting what I find within this new substance.

Will write again soon


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Re: My Colorado Trail Psychedelic Experiment (Chapter 3) [Re: TheScientificMethod]
    #25410094 - 08/24/18 01:53 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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