<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>After I arrived at Cumbres Pass from Grants on June 1st, I flipped to the Divide Basin starting at Rawlins, which has plenty of water and is cool in early June. If I had to do it again I might even start northbound from Battle Pass since that section is longer than most of us are willing to admit. </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "bcss@bresnan.net" <bcss@bresnan.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Gary Swing' <homelessontherange@yahoo.com>; cdt-l@backcountry.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 6, 2011 7:01 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cdt-l] NOBO Start Date from Silver City<br> </font> <br><div id="yiv1825887327"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1825887327WordSection1"><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; ">NM is usually nice in May and you’ve already done the hottest part. It is 640 miles from Silver City to the Colorado line. Snow is usually an issue in the San Juans until early July so I would time my departure to get to Colorado no earlier than mid June. The San Juans are one of the best parts of the entire CDT so it would be nice to be able to do them. </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; ">The Pintlers and Bitterroots routinely hold snow into July so I’m not sure flipping to Butte would help that much.
</span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; ">best wishes,</span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; ">Jerry Brown (bearcreek)</span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div
class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net [mailto:cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Swing<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 05, 2011 12:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> cdt-l@backcountry.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Cdt-l] NOBO Start Date from Silver City</span></div></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"> </div><table class="yiv1825887327MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;"><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal">In 2009 and 2010, I hiked about 900 miles of the CDT and alternate routes, including the sections from Antelope Wells to Silver City, New Mexico, Squaw Pass to Silverthorne, Colorado, and Butte, Montana to the Canadian border.</div></div><div><div
class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal">I'm thinking about section hiking part or all of the rest of the CDT in 2012, probably starting at Silver City, and either skipping the parts I've already walked, or taking a higher route through Colorado. </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal">I'm considering a start date from Silver City sometime between April 15 and May 1. Any opnions about how late is too late to head northbound from Silver City for the heat in New Mexico? Or the optimal time to balance out heat in the south with snowmelt in Colorado? </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal">Also, if I flipped from hiking northbound to southern Colorado to hiking southbound from Butte, Montana what would be the optimal time to head southbound from Butte in terms of
snowmelt?</div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal">Thanks,</div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal">Gary Swing<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 12/3/11, Bob Bankhead <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wandering_bob@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:wandering_bob@comcast.net">wandering_bob@comcast.net</a>></i></b> wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;"><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><br>From: Bob Bankhead <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wandering_bob@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:wandering_bob@comcast.net">wandering_bob@comcast.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] resupply<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rockmarkstar@aol.com"
target="_blank" href="mailto:rockmarkstar@aol.com">rockmarkstar@aol.com</a>, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a><br>Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011, 2:47 PM</div><div id="yiv1825887327"><div><div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; ">Anything is possible, but some places just lend themselves more to local purchases than do others. </span></div></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; ">I’d suggest that you also post this query on the CDT forum at trailforums.com and on the White Blaze (AT) forum in their CDT sub-forum.</span></div></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div></blockquote><div
class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; ">Also, read carefully these two CDT Guides: Paul Magnanti at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pmags.com/a-quick-and-dirty-cdt-guide">http://www.pmags.com/a-quick-and-dirty-cdt-guide</a> and Spirit Eagle at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/cdt.html">http://www.spiriteaglehome.com/cdt.html</a></span></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327msonormal"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1825887327MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----</div><div><div
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