Here is our Creamy Spaghetti recipe! We ate this on our walk from Mexico to Canada on the Continental Divide Trail in 2021. We liked it so much that we will bring it again on our upcoming Pacific Northwest Circuit -- 4 months and 2,700 miles by foot and canoe!
Food is constantly on our minds while we are on outdoor adventures! Considering that we burn anywhere from 3,500 to 4,500 calories a day while thruhiking, that shouldn’t be surprising. Instead, it gives us lots of motivation during the offseason…
We love data! We have been clocking and recording our outdoor activities with GPS trackers for years, so of course we did the same on the Continental Divide Trail. We both wore GPS watches and step counters and used them religiously. We already posted a map of our CDT thruhike showing our precise location every moment of the walk, but now we’ve had a chance to download and process the data. In this post we dissect and highlight the numbers from our walk.
The CDT was our second major thruhike. After finishing the PCT in 2018, we loved looking back at our photos, but we realized the few videos we took did an even better job of bringing the trail back to life.…
This map was made using our daily GPS data from our 2021 CDT thruhike, recorded with Renee's Garmin Fenix 5 watch. It provides trail-level resolution of every step we took and every place we camped.
We completed the Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada! Now we are asking ourselves, how do we measure a thruhike? These are some of the stats that stand out for us: It took us 135 days, from May 3…
One of our most frightening moments on the Continental Divide Trail was in New Mexico when we arrived at a water source called Adobe Springs to fill up, and the water was gone! The spring had gone dry. We were…
This stretch of the CDT took us out of the desert and into the mountains. The vegetation transitioned to include many trees and wildlife included many new animals. Day 7 – Mile 105.5 – Higher elevation Today was a steady…
The Continental Divide Trail starts in New Mexico in the Chihuahuan desert in the Basin and Range. For the first few days, we are walking through different mountain ranges, including the Big Hatchet Range, the Little Hatchet Range, and the…
Photos and descriptions of the items in our packs at the start of the CDT. At the bottom of this post is a Google Sheet with our exhaustive gear list.
We compiled everything we’ve learned from thousands of miles of hiking into this guide and recipe book! We hope you enjoy it!
-Renee and Tim
