What follows are my thoughts on the CDT. I wrote this for submission in Yogi’s CDT Handbook. The wording and formatting may be awkward. It was written in response to questions that I have deleted from this text. Questions? Please leave a comment! NAVIGATION Many CDTers also don’t know squat about navigation. But that doesn’t [...]
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Planning a thruhike on the Continental Divide Trail
Posted in Backpacking, Continental Divide Trail, Gear, tagged adventure, Backpacker Magazine, backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, gear, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear, wilderness on February 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
PCT vs CDT: Comparing the Long Trails
Posted in Backpacking, Continental Divide Trail, Pacific Crest Trail on January 30, 2011 | 11 Comments »
A reader, wrote with questions about the PCT vs the CDT. Here, in my own words, I compare them. First off, here are general impressions with a slant towards not repeating others. In life, we’re faced with summarizing huge topics in few words. This isn’t that. But when asked how the CDT was, I sometimes [...]
Mapping the CDT
Posted in Backpacking, Continental Divide Trail, tagged Backpacker Magazine, backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m finally in Boulder, CO mapping the CDT. It’s really quite nice to be sitting in front of a computer for a week. A snip of the behind the scenes workings of Backpacker Magazine has been educational. Quality work, I say.
The Crazy Cook Route on the CDT
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lordsburg. It’s dumpy. Lordsburg, where I settled into two hotel rooms before realizing that they were unacceptably filty, bug infested, and broken. Lordsburg, where there really wasn’t anything going on. Lordsburg, where the dump of a chinese restaurant, turned out to be delicious. We’d hemmed and hawed about even going in. We *knew* it’d be [...]
Hiking in Silver City, NM
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Left Silver City on a road walk. I continue to not be a fan of road walking. Sure, sometimes it’s nice to have easy going miles on a quite, unused jeep road. You can walk side by side. You can switch sides when to walk on smoother tread. You can shut your mind off and [...]
The Gila River on the CDT
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This section has been both full and fullfilling. It’s intimidating to start this journal entry, I feel like I’ve done so much since Pie Town. I’ll start with the beginning. It was a road walk out of Pie Town. Lost, Stretch and I made decent time along the mostly flat, little used dirt road. The [...]
The Toaster House in Pie Town, NM
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Pie Town at the Toaster House. This awesome reality is eclipsing the past few days. But first, the past. It’s been a nearly continuous road walk since the malpais. A little on the highway brought us to a large arch. From there we scurried crosscountry up a mesa to walk a little up [...]
El Malpais on the CDT
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two nights out of grants and we are at the second water cache just after the malpais. Thanks trail angels! Feeling a little haggard this evening. Likely cause is only drinking a liter since lunch and hiking without break. We kept booking it because the going was slow across the lava fields. In terms of [...]
Grants, New Mexico Hiking
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Grants, at the library, where you have to “read” seven pages about the rules before you can get on the computer. We’re buying tickets. Tickets home. Oh no, oh gosh. I’ll be flying to Las Vegas a day before my birthday, then work three days later. Good thing that “re-entry” is backpacking for [...]
A dispatch from Circle A Ranch
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just wrote a big post and lost it all. Curse you new smartphone! But still, I love it. The hiking is grand. Northern New Mexico is forest. Rich wildlife, some red cliffs, fall colors, meadows, creeks… Sky Islands as they’re called. When I pull myself off the couch, we’ll be hiking into the real [...]
