Category Archives: Continental Divide
My thoughts about the CDT
The first two people I met on the Continental Divide Trail were a German man and his wife in southern New Mexico in April. They had flown from Germany to El Paso the day before. Three days later in central … Continue reading
Glacier National Park (Last Blog on the CDT)
I arrived at Glacier National Park in mid-afternoon, the fourth of July, and looked up the Back Country Office. This office issues permits to sleep at remote campsites within the park. For weeks I had had two ideas in my … Continue reading
Tetons, Beaver Dam and Birds
Here is the grandest scene I know of in the U.S. Park System. Walk in the entrance of the Jackson Lake Lodge in the Tetons and mount the long flight of steps in front of you to the main lobby. … Continue reading
South Pass History and Brooks Lake Scenery
I have friends who ski outside Steamboat Springs. I had never been there, but it’s on the way to Buffalo Pass in the Zirkel Mountains. An attractive town, neat and prosperous, it is also welcoming. It’s out in the middle … Continue reading
Hiking the Green Mountain Trail
From the unforgettable Maroon Bells Wilderness, I dropped down to Denver to take the staff of Big City Mountaineers to lunch and then went west of I-70 to Golden to see Teresa Martinez with the Continental Divide Trail Alliance. She … Continue reading
Maroon Bells Wilderness
I left my laptop and other worldly possessions at Hi Country RV Storage, Santa Fe, on May 13, and took the “Rail Runner” commuter train to an Albuquerque flight to Jacksonville. From St. Augustine I sailed to Great Abaco to … Continue reading
Taos, Ghost Ranch, Weather
Before Bill returned to Taos, we discussed where my next stop would be as I headed north for day hikes on the Continental Divide Trail. He urged me to see Ghost Ranch on US Hwy 84, so that’s where I … Continue reading
On my way back from Hachita
As I drove back to my RV from Hachita, NM, going west on St. Rd. 9 to St. Rd. 80, I decided to stop where the Continental Divide Trail crosses the highway and walk north for a while, my first steps on … Continue reading
Hachita
To call Hachita a town is a painful stretch of a good word. I’d call it wrack in a sea of creosote bush. As I crawled east down SR 9, on my right I passed five dirt roads scratched through … Continue reading
I’ve reached the Continental Divide!
There are too many live oaks on my property to allow me to pull my RV fifth wheel up to the house, so I parked it in the subdivision between me and US Hwy 1 and loaded it up Saturday … Continue reading