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Sir Toe - <BR>
In June '98 I wrote a letter to the Glacier people telling them I was gonna thruhike the next year <BR>
('99) but that I wanted to see Glacier at it's best (summer) and was it possible to schedule a hike <BR>
either Nobo or Sobo through Glacier in July. We knew it was a lost cause but still worth a shot. <BR>
A week later I got a call from the scheduling office telling us that we could do it if we were willing <BR>
to be flexible and lay over a day at Red Eagle Lake. So we did. <BR>
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No guarantee that would work again, but if I wanted to go through Glacier, it's what I'd try. <BR>
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For the Rawlins - Denver thing - and the CT - the mountains "can" be hot, but not too lilkely. <BR>
In '97 we did most of the section south from CO114 to Wolf Creek Pass - lots of rain, <BR>
cold and snow/hail near Wolf Creek Pass. <BR>
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Rawlins - ID - the desert still isn't predictable. In '99 it was mostly a furnace, in 2006, we got <BR>
hypothermic the first day out of Rawlins while the week prior it had hit 118 deg. Then it was in <BR>
the low 80's into the Winds, where we had hail storms. <BR>
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It's all good. <BR>
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Have a good one,<BR>
Jim<BR>
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<BR>http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/<BR><BR><BR> <BR>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:00:45 -0700<BR>> From: sloetoe@yahoo.com<BR>> To: cdt-l@backcountry.net<BR>> Subject: [Cdt-l] 30 days' walk SURVEY<BR>> <BR>> 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 <BR>> <BR>> 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.<BR>> <BR>> 2) The Colorado Trail 500 miles, some CDT-ness, "hot"/"dry" in spots... Hmmmm.<BR>> <BR>> 3) Continental Divide in some subparts -- e.g., <BR>> Rawlins WY SOBO to Denver CO<BR>> or<BR>> Rawlins WY NOBO to Yellowstone/ID<BR>> <BR>> 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!<BR>> <BR>> 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?<BR>> <BR>> 1) LT? (Probably not.)<BR>> <BR>> 2 CT? (Will it be too hot in mid-Summer? Too dry? Better elsewhere?)<BR>> <BR>> 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?)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> THANK YOU FOR ALL REPLIES!<BR>> Tom McGinnis, City Dude<BR>> ONCE known as "sloetoe" the hiker......<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Cdt-l mailing list<BR>> Cdt-l@backcountry.net<BR>> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/cdt-l<BR> </body>
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