Continental Divide Trail Bloggers
Retrospective Update From the CDT: Idaho, Montana, and CANADA
(This is the final installment of my retrospective updates of my 2016 thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail. Click here, here, here, here, and here to read the previous installments.) THE
Following Your Primal Instinct
*** I'm laying on rock and crude dirt somewhere in the high desert of Montana. My top turns brown from the fine soil beneath me. I do that often. Sprawl...
A Retrospective Update From the CDT: WYOMING
I knew that arriving in Wyoming also meant kicking the mileage up a notch and getting down to this thru-hiking business. This started out as an easy feat, because arrival...
A Retrospective Update From the CDT: Oh Colorado!
We left our snowshoes and other winter gear behind as we continued on our journey north on the CDT. Through the rest of Colorado, we faced our first boughts with...
My zero day in Nevereverland
Let me start off by saying that fairytales really do exist. No, maybe not the kind you're thinking of...the lovey dovey knight in shining armour kind. This will not be...
Sunday in Silver City
Silver City is a GEM! On Sunday, we had to zero because we had to go the post office on Monday. We had to send a resupply to Pie Town...
A Zero in Lordsburg
Laundry and Resupply and a Surprise Zero, Oh My! We arrived in Lordsburg early on April 5th, and we stopped by the EconoLodge to see Radar and collect some maps...
There’s a First Time for Everything: Crazy Cook to Lordsburg, Five Nights in the Desert
Off-Roading Adventure Shuttle I've taken my fair share of hiker shuttles. When I hiked the AT, I squashed myself into several minivans packed full of hiker trash on our way...
Traveling West: New Jersey to New Mexico
One Trail, Three Termini The Continental Divide Trail (CDT) has three southern termini: Crazy Cook Monument, Antelope Wells, NM, and Columbus, NM. Charlie and I chose the Crazy Cook Monument....
Seven Months Later
Were getting dropped off on the Mexico border in the desert hoping against hope that our compass skills are adequate that our maps are accurate that well survive the heat...