The Bob is the Bob Marshall Wilderness that begins about 30 miles south of Glacier National Park. Just to refresh everyone’s memory, since I haven’t had cell service in awhile, I departed East Glacier on the 4th of July. It’s a 16 mile hike on the Continental Divide Trail from East Glacier to theContinue reading “CDT Update: The Bob”
Category Archives: Walking
CDT Update: Glacier National Park
I decided to flip up to the Canadian border and walk south on the Continental Divide Trail for awhile. After a pleasant three week break from hiking in Santa Fe, I flew to Spokane and then hopped on an Amtrak train. The train departed about 1 AM and arrived at the small town of EastContinue reading “CDT Update: Glacier National Park”
CDT Update: Chama, NM
We have now completed the entire state of New Mexico on the Continental Divide Trail. After leaving Cuba, NM the trail climbed in elevation and changes from desert to alpine forest and mountains. Much of the trail is above 10,000 feet and often closer to 11,000 feet. Our week hiking was made a little moreContinue reading “CDT Update: Chama, NM”
CDT Update: Cuba, NM
The Continental Divide Trail between Grants and Cuba, NM was a really excellent section of trail. We hiked up the 11,300 for Mount Taylor, our highest elevation for the trail so far. We encountered snow and many downed trees covering the trail on the north face, resulting in our first postholings of our hike. FortunatelyContinue reading “CDT Update: Cuba, NM”
CDT Update: Grants, NN
We have hiked the 85 miles from Pie Town to Grants. About 70 miles of that was road walking (jeep, dirt, or paved). We have now hiked more than 400 miles since starting our hike one month ago today. The section did have several very nice areas. The Cebolla Wilderness, the El Malpais lava fields,Continue reading “CDT Update: Grants, NN”
CDT Update: Pie Town
First of all, a big, big thank you to Shirley and Dennis who gave us a 28-mile ride into Reserve from the trail crossing 4 days ago. These trail angels actually gave rides to 7 hikers that day and were staying at an RV park about 10 miles east of the town so they wentContinue reading “CDT Update: Pie Town”