[Cdt-l] Wyoming - Stock Driveway?

[Jim and_or Ginny Owen]

Actually, I'm not sure whether they're still being used for the sheep or not.  In '98 we 

found sheep in the Weminuche, and in fact, IIRC one of Jim Wolf's trail alternates was 

to follow the sheep trail across a ridge rather than drop 1000'.  It was an "interesting" 

route.  

 

Sheep - ran into them in other places in Colorado and have run into them several times 

in Wyoming.  Got caught in a "sheep stampede" in the Winds and then had the dogs try 

to get a piece of us.  That didn't work out for them.  Also ran into sheep in Montana near 

the Sheep Station, but the dogs there didn't bother us.  

 

Walk softly - and carry a big stick,

Jim

http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/


 


Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:03:46 -0800
From: jonathan at phlumf.com
To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
CC: spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com; jackrichardson at roadrunner.com
Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] Wyoming - Stock Driveway?


Actually, the stock driveways aren’t really used anymore. In the old days, these were routes for big cattle drives (i.e. see City Slickers, or “Australia”)… a way to get free range cattle to market (usually to a rail yard). But today, free-range cattle are generally rounded up to smaller corrals, then loaded onto trucks and moved that way – less risk of lost/injured cattle among other advantages. The CDT follows another stock driveway in the northern part of the San Juans… There might be a few places where the areas are so vast, the cattle need to be moved a little further than usual to get to a corral, but it’s not quite the same as the old giant cattle drives. If someone knows of a place in the US where they’re still using stock driveways in the traditional sense, I’d be curious to know about it…

-Jonathan

Jim and_or Ginny Owen wrote: 


You run into them several places on the CDT, including Colorado.  Sheep and/or cattle are allowed to graze the high country and are brought in via the stock driveways.  For CDT hikers, when the trail follows a stock driveway, it means following a cairned route that is pretty easy to follow but may not have a single treadway, just a wide open meadow.  The Wolf guidebooks will tell you when you're following a stock driveway.
 
Ginny

http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/


 


From: jackrichardson at roadrunner.com
To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:04:28 -0500
Subject: [Cdt-l] Wyoming - Stock Driveway?




While printing Ley's maps, I found an interesting item on his first few maps of Wyoming.

Since I am  from Maine and perhaps a little out of touch, what is a ..... 


stock driveway


anyway?


tumbleweed
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