[cdt-l] New Thru-hiker questions

[Ginny & Jim Owen]

In New Mexico and Montana you might want to carry the National Forest maps 
as they show all the jeep roads in the forest and many of the trails.  In 
Wyoming and NM we carried the BLM maps. Ordering info is on our website 
under "Resources". I wouldn't bother with the CDTA maps - all that 
information is on Jonathan's maps. We didn't need the NF maps for Colorado 
either because we carried the TI maps.

We hiked the new trail this spring.  It was a very good route.  We have the 
maps and water information (including gps coordinates) and intend to get it 
to Jonathan in January and will probably have it up on the website too.  We 
just haven't had a chance to put it all together yet.

Jiim Wolf's guides are much better than the CDTA books.  Colorado was okay - 
but there are problems with the other guidebooks.  They lack a lot of 
necessary detail and don't give much information on alternate routes.

Ginny


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>From: Karen Somers <kborski at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
>To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [cdt-l] New Thru-hiker questions
>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:42:22 -0800 (PST)
>
>Mags and others,
>
>Thanks for the great information.
>
>Mags mentioned the new trail that has just been
>constructed near Silver City.....will that be on the
>CDTA maps?
>
>In consideration of all the input I've received, I'm
>planning to carry:
>
>- CDTA maps
>- Ley's maps
>- DeLorme topo overviews (obtained via their atlases)
>- Garmin's topos (on my GPS unit; no extra weight)
>- Trails Illustrated maps (I also already own all of
>these for CO, Yellowstone and Glacier)
>- Maybe the BLMs for NM (concerned its too much
>weight-wise; how do you order these?)
>- Yogi's handbook
>- CDTA guidebook pages
>
>Hmmm.  This sounds like a lot to me, but I still feel
>like I'm missing something.
>
>What about carrying Colorado Trail maps or CT town
>guide, etc.?  When I hiked the CT, I knew exactly the
>spots where the CDT overlapped, but now I can't recall
>whether its enough of an overlap to warrant bringing
>along pieces of my guidebook.
>
>Bald Eagle reminded me that I own Lynn Wheldon's "How
>to Hike the CDT" video -- I must've bought it several
>years ago and forgotten.  It doesn't help your memory
>when everything you own has been in storage for three
>years.
>
>If there are any other prospective CDT thru-hikers (or
>section hikers!) in N. Alabama, Middle Tennessee or W.
>Georgia, please contact me off list and maybe we can
>get together to share planning, ideas and watch the
>videos together.
>
>Nocona
>
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