CDT Days 116-118 – Granite Rocks and Gentle Mountains
These three days had us hiking a trail shaped like a large backwards “C” in the mountains that surround Butte,…
CDT Days 113-115 – Empty Trail
The trail has been very green for the last few days. The mountains have been beautiful and full of interesting…
CDT Days 110-112 – Fire Detour
This section of the “trail” had us walking a fire detour around the Trail Creek and Black Mountain fires. We…
CDT Days 107-109 – Low Visibility
We had smoke and rain/fog limiting our visibility as we continued along the Montana-Idaho border. We started a fire detour…
CDT Days 104-106 – Barren ridges
These three days we traversed high ridges on the border of Montana and Idaho. There was often little vegetation beyond…
CDT Days 101-103 – Expansive views
We continued snaking along the border of Idaho and Montana, which follows the Continental Divide. The landscape has become much…
CDT Days 98-100 – Montaho! (Montana/Idaho)
During the last three days we continued enjoying Yellowstone and saw some of its most impressive thermal features. Then we…
CDT Days 95-97 – Yellowstone National Park
This stretch of the trail took us into a Yellowstone National Park, our second national park on the CDT. Day…
CDT Days 92-94 – Enjoying newly built trail!
For much of these three days we hiked on a segment of the CDT that is just being built. It…
