cdt sobo
Colorado welcome committee: we hope you like hail
CDT Sobo, days 61 - 66, entering Colorado Day 61 - 0 miles The bed is empty when I wake up. 6 am. As silently as possible I make my...
CDT days 58 – 60: Six hikers walk into a church. Wyoming? That’s a wrap!
After the 100 mile challenge, we’re wrapping up CDT Wyoming. Being sent off with trail magic, old friends and an unusual church visit.
CDT Sobo – Why hike 100 miles and hallucinate in the basin?
„Do you wanna do something crazy in the basin?“ That’s how it started. Mosey and I hadn’t seen each other since early June in Glacier national park. And in the...
End of the Teton alternate, the Winds and Cowboy Wisdom
The Winds - finally the trail enters the section considered the “most beautiful” of the whole Continental Divide Trail. Green alpine meadows stretch between sharp rugged peaks. An endless
Getting bored of hiking on the Teton alternate
Day 43, Teton NP to Jackson I am done with hiking. I’m bored by it. Fuck it. I’ll take the cut off. Yeah, this park is beautiful but I just...
1000 miles and leaving Yellowstone for another National Park
Just before Heart Lake in Yellowstone National Park I exited the park and the CDT to embark on a side quest: the Teton alternate. Crossing through the Tetona National Park,...
CDT mile 927 – 941 Yellowstone
A huge CDT Sobo milestone: the end of Montana-Idaho. And while walking right into Yellowstone National Park, we enter a new state: Wyoming. Geysers, Bisons and Bacon.
CDT day 32 – 35: leaving Lima
Totally into Tetons? A famous alternate begs planning and decision making. Day 32 Fred and I are sitting in front of the laundry room which has been our main hangout...
CDT town Lima – like the bean
Welcome to Lima - not in Peru but in Idaho. The second idaho stop on the CDT. A state where hitch hiking is illegal but the locals are here to...
CDT Leadore to Lima
Harsh hiking in the Idaho-Montana section: heat, bloodsucking vampires and: smoke on the horizon. But the sky has a sweet surprise for us.