Continental Divide Trail

The Continental Divide Trail is a long distance foot path that roughly follows the continental divide of the United States. In 2010, I walked the entire trail from Canada to Mexico. If water falls on the dividing line of the continent, it either flows west to the Pacific, or East, to the east. It’s along that general line that I walked.

The divides. There are many more divides. In fact, they’re all over.

The CDT is a National Scenic Trail. It is considered to be hard and is the newest trail of America’s Triple Crown of hiking. The Triple Crown involves walking the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Appalachian Trail. The CDT is said to be 3,100+ miles. It’s written on signs, on blogs, in journals, in emails to friends back home and pretty much everywhere else. The CDT is not 3,100+ miles. That’s wrong. It’s shorter. I know because I walked it.

It took me 144 days to walk the trail. I started June 14th and finished November 4th, 2010. There is so much that can be said on about the trail and the experience. Have a question? Just ask! Until then, I present you with the little I wrote on the trail and the little that I wrote after I got back.