Soon I will be starting my journey on the CDT or Continental Divide Trail. The CDT is roughly a 3,100 mile hiking trail that runs from the Mexico/New Mexico border in the south to the Canada/ Montana border in the north. The CDT is said to be the hardest of the three long distance hiking trails in the United States that make up what is known as the Triple Crown. The other two being the Appalachian trail and the Pacific Crest trail. I thru-hiked the Appalachian trail last year in 2018, so this will be my second trail in the quest for the triple-crown. Thru-hiking a trail basically means starting a trail and hiking it until you finish it without taking a lot of time off. Some people say a thru-hike only counts if completed within a year or 365 days but I have heard of people taking much longer. I feel as long as you are staying on trail and not going home and sitting on the couch for long periods of time it counts. A second way to hike the trails is known as section hiking. This is where you hike part of the trail then go home and come back later and hike some more and then repeat the process until you finish. There is no time limit and some people take 20 years or more to finish a trail this way.
I will be attempting to thru-hike (hopefully in way less than a year). The CDT crosses the vast desert of New Mexico and then follows the spine of the Rockies along the Continental Divide. This is some of the wildest terrain left on our planet. There is plenty of information to be found by googling Continental Divide Trail if any one is interested in learning more. I will hopefully be updating this page periodically with posts about and pics from my hike as I go.
