thru-hiking
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, appendix A: overview map of miles walked
While hiking the CDT, I used a Garmin In-Reach Mini* to track my location so friends and family could follow our progress. This post is simply the complete, zoomed-out map of the hike from the… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, appendix A: overview map of miles walked
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, post-script: going on vacation
At some point in the ten months since I’d last ridden in a bona-fide airplane from Allentown to Atlanta, American Airlines had begun1 a probably legal but morally questionable program of deceiving passengers leaving from… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, post-script: going on vacation
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 21: It’s always something
Day 141: 04 September, 10.9 miles today, 2299.4 miles total, Glacier NP After a night of sporadic light rain and wind so violent it shook the small cabin I’d split with Elf, the acrid smell… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 21: It’s always something
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 20: the Bob
Day 136: 30 August, 19.3 miles today, 2194.7 miles total, Bob Marshall Wilderness, MT The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, known to most CDT thru-hikers simply as “the Bob,” is one of those famous stretches of… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 20: the Bob
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 19: trying to keep it together while falling apart
Day 126: 20 August, 26.7 miles today, 2011.2 miles total, Beaverhead-Deerlodge [sic] NF, MT The day we walked into Whitehall, my remaining 2L water bladder failed. The first one had sprung a fatal leak after… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 19: trying to keep it together while falling apart
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 18: the Cutoff
Day 115: 09 August, 20.6 miles today, 1813.6 miles total, Gallatin NF, MT Big Sky Alternate, day 01 The end always happens suddenly, no matter how long you’ve had to prepare for it. Even in… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 18: the Cutoff
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 17: the last days of Wyoming
Day 107: 01 August, 21.1 miles today, 1684.9 miles total, Teton Wilderness, WY Hitchhiking, the guide stresses, is illegal in Dubois. We’d had our thumbs out in front of the post office for less than… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 17: the last days of Wyoming
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 16: a terrible, beautiful place
Day 96: 21 July, 19.7 miles today, 1507.3 miles total, somewhere in WY The five of us sat in the McDonald’s, our greasy breakfasts long finished, nursing our second or third large coffees and drawing… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 16: a terrible, beautiful place
Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 15: a land without shelter
Day 87: 12 July, 20.1 miles today, 1309.4 miles total, middle of nowhere, WY There was a mental phenomenon I experienced on the Appalachian Trail that I came to think of as the Katahdin blues,… Read More »Disorganized notes on the Continental Divide Trail, part 15: a land without shelter