After years on many trails, I finally had a tick on my socks. I killed it. Everything is treated. Finally using my sleep socks since they have been treated by InsectShield.
Heather was really kind and drove us to the transit station in Salt Lake. A beautiful building that no one uses. Greyhound picks up at the curb. Trax busses use the drive up bays but not the building. The rail just works from the rail side.
We caught the greyhound to Rawlins. Slept a little. Ate lunch at 11:00. We got out at the travel center and started walking.
Fairly flat, fairly fast trail for the most part. We got to the water right around 6:00. Set up the tent quickly as there was rain about.
There was wind so we set up near a berm of sorts.
By 7:00 no rain reached us (there has been rain all day but we have lucked out on it missing where we were. Wind really died down.
The trail parallels 287 (which runs from Wichita Falls to Yellowstone) mostly using old ranch roads.