Gila Days 5-7
Day 5 – 25 crossings Happy Thanksgiving! Today started with 25 river crossings over 3.5 miles. The scenery was beautiful, but the air and water temps were cold! Our feet were freezing! A few stretches of trail were a bit…
Category Continental Divide Trail
We are hiking the Continental Divide Trail: 3,000 miles through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.
Gila Days 3-4
Day 3 – 20.6 miles, 1,500 feet of elevation gain, 62 river crossings What an awesome day! We finally made it to the Gila River this morning! We started walking at 7:30am and everything was frozen. When we got to…
Gila Days 1-2
In 2021 we walked from Mexico to Canada on the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) . The CDT has a lot of alternate routes and shortcuts, but we to stuck to the official trail the entire time (other than when the…
Exploring a new route: The “Pacific Northwest Circuit”!
In 2022 we will traverse a route that we’re calling the “Pacific Northwest Circuit”. It will include 1500 miles of hiking and 1200 miles of canoeing in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA and Canada. The route: We’ll start…
Analyzing the data we collected on the Continental Divide Trail!
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.
New Video on YouTube: Experience the Continental Divide Trail in 10 minutes!
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.…
Complete Map of the CDT: Generated With GPS Data We Collected
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.
All the gear we used on our Continental Divide Trail thruhike
We minimized gear and chose lightweight equipment for our 2021 CDT thruhike. We both had base weights of about 10 lbs for the CDT (weight of all equipment excluding food & water), which was a few pounds lighter than our…
How to measure a thruhike? Stats from our 4.5 month CDT adventure!
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…
CDT Days 134 – 135 – The finish!
These three days included our final miles to Canada! We completed the CDT! We hiked an unbroken footpath between Mexico and Canada. We followed the official trail the entire way except where it was legally closed due to fires, in…
