[Cdt-l] 30 days' walk SURVEY

[Jim and_or Ginny Owen]

Sir Toe - 
In June '98 I wrote a letter to the Glacier people telling them I was gonna thruhike the next year 
('99) but that I wanted to see Glacier at it's best (summer) and was it possible to schedule a hike 
either Nobo or Sobo through Glacier in July.  We knew it was a lost cause but still worth a shot.  
A week later I got a call from the scheduling office telling us that we could do it if we were willing 
to be flexible and lay over a day at Red Eagle Lake.  So we did.  
 
No guarantee that would work again, but if I wanted to go through Glacier, it's what I'd try.  
 
For the Rawlins - Denver thing - and the CT - the mountains "can" be hot, but not too lilkely.  
In '97 we did most of the section south  from CO114 to Wolf Creek Pass - lots of rain, 
cold and snow/hail near Wolf Creek Pass.  
 
Rawlins - ID - the desert still isn't predictable.  In '99 it was mostly a furnace, in 2006, we got 
hypothermic the first day out of Rawlins while the week prior it had hit 118 deg.  Then it was in 
the low 80's into the Winds, where we had hail storms.  
 
It's all good.  
 
Have a good one,
Jim
 

http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/


 
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:00:45 -0700
> From: sloetoe at yahoo.com
> To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: [Cdt-l] 30 days' walk SURVEY
> 
> Okay, there's this faint possibility that I would have a 30-day window in which to take a walk, around mid-Summer this year. Off the top of my head, there would be 
> 
> 1) The Long Trail 280+ miles that increase in their gnarlydom as you walk north. But I've done it already, and it *is* "close" (i.e., a "long green tunnel"). Hmmmm.
> 
> 2) The Colorado Trail 500 miles, some CDT-ness, "hot"/"dry" in spots... Hmmmm.
> 
> 3) Continental Divide in some subparts -- e.g., 
> Rawlins WY SOBO to Denver CO
> or
> Rawlins WY NOBO to Yellowstone/ID
> 
> Conditioning? Right now, I'm a desk-driving flunkie, and the last serious hike I was on was 2004. I'd be solo (big advantage), and route-finding is no big deal (outside of the fact that this *is* the cdt), but I just went on a couple of easy runs the other day, and I am *still* feeling it -- I can't just run out the door anymore -- too much sitting...(must train!) SO!
> 
> In 2007, I did most of the Winds courtesy of The Great Guide, Sly[!], and then bopped around bushwhacking Medicine Bow and Mt. Zirkle -- totally loved everything I saw by car from Helena to I70/Denver. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
> 
> 1) LT? (Probably not.)
> 
> 2 CT? (Will it be too hot in mid-Summer? Too dry? Better elsewhere?)
> 
> 3) CDT? (Something like the Winds up north past Yellowstone? OMG? Should I even bother thinking of something else? "Glacier" is too much bother by now, right?)
> 
> 
> THANK YOU FOR ALL REPLIES!
> Tom McGinnis, City Dude
> ONCE known as "sloetoe" the hiker......
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