<div>Iceaxe--</div>
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<div>Re your "frivolous" post. Put your feet on the ground. They will find their way.</div>
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<div>Walt in Pennsylvania<br><br></div>
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Subject: [Cdt-l] CDT Snow<br>To: <a href="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:8CD752B270E1B91-1130-14EDB@webmail-m094.sysops.aol.com">8CD752B270E1B91-1130-14EDB@webmail-m094.sysops.aol.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br><br><br>I was fortunate enough to fly over the CDT this afternoon on my return from Christmas in Pennsylvania.<br>After the plane crossed Indiana there was a long spell of snow covered flats. Then in the distance I saw the Rockies.<br>
The plane was headed for Las Vegas so we flew over the CDT in what looked like Southern Colorado.<br>Those snow covered crags gave me goose bumps.<br>I was on the starboard side of the plane and through my window I could see the physical divide clearly.<br>
I imagined a line of steps down there reaching from the Mexican border to that of Canada.<br>As great a vantage point as I had up at 38,000 feet, that line of steps still disappeared beyond the curve of the earth<br>far to the north.<br>
A little later we passed over the great expanse of the Grand Canyon.<br>It made me wonder what it would be like to follow the course of the Colorado river from Baja to the Continental Divide.<br>Anyhow i don't know where i am gpoing with this post.<br>
My heart is set on hiking the AT this March. It is something I want to do even more now after visiting Pennsylvania.<br>However I would be lying if I said I did not think about visiting all that country along the Continental Divide again.<br>
The CDT ruined me!<br>The PCT was so "established".<br>The CDT was utter freedom.. Now I am going to hike the AT.. a fully blazed trail!<br>I mean, there seem to be actual shelters.. and you aparently don't really need maps on the AT.. Madness!<br>
<br>"The good news is: you are free.. the bad news is: you don't know what to do with your freedom!"-Joseph Campbell<br><br>I just wanted to share my happy CDT "sighting" from 38,000 feet today and all the crazy feelings it invoked.<br>
Forgive my frivolous post.. but i don't know any other group of people who would understand.<br>-Iceaxe<br><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <a href="http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/cdt-l/attachments/20101228/406dca14/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/cdt-l/attachments/20101228/406dca14/attachment-0001.html</a><br>
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