ne morning, in late August of 2020, I crossed paths with a fellow traveler in the wilderness of Colorado's Pike National Forest, as I was making my way westward along the Colorado Trail. The Trail stretches some 500 miles across Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, from Denver to Durango. I traveled the path alone, on a bicycle, beginning a 16-day journey through some of the wildest, most beautiful terrain in all of North America. That morning, though, my first morning on the Colorado Trail, I wa...