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Continental Divide Trail - One Jim Hill - Zero (Big Trails) (Volume 3)
Continental Divide Trail One Jim Hill Zero - Big Trails - Volume 3 Author:Jim Hill In 2014 I attempted to thru-hike the Continental Divide Trail. I hiked all of New Mexico and Wyoming?s Great Divide Basin to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. On my fifty-five day, 980 mile journey I met only four thru-hikers actually hiking on the Trail. At one point I hiked twenty-three straight days without seeing another thru-hiker on the Trail. ... more » Please join me, at least vicariously, as we dodge creosote bushes, cactus, thorny plants, and prairie dog holes on our way through the vast, dry, prickly, southern New Mexico desert, cross the Gila River over 200 times, climb steep canyon walls, experience hiking alone for twenty-three straight days, savor chocolate cream pie in Pie Town, New Mexico, meet kind, generous Nita Larronde and stay at her famous Toaster House, hike through gorgeous sandstone canyons, feel the thirst that develops in the ninety degree heat after two straight water sources are dry, slosh through lush green meadows in the San Pedro Parks Wilderness, visit hiker friendly Ghost Ranch and feast on their all-you-can-eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, watch wild horses gallop through thick sage in the vast, isolated Great Divide Basin, fight to stay upright while encased in a huge dust devil, posthole through thick snow before Bridger Peak, and experience a white knuckle ride down the mountain to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. After thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and hiking 980 miles of the Continental Divide Trail I have learned through trial and error what works and doesn?t work for me. When I find something that works, I stick with it. At the end of the book I will share some of the things that work for me and how I plan to apply what I have learned to successfully thru-hike the Continental Divide Trail in 2016. I can?t wait! The Continental Divide Trail kicked my butt the first time around. I am eagerly looking forward to a rematch.« less