<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Regarding the dirt roads, most tend to be 2 track 4wd roads, not improved. One seldom encounters a vehicle on these roads. It wasn't nearly as troublesome as I had anticipated. Paved and gravel roads just destroy me. In some cases I looked forward to the roads because I didn't have to worry about losing the trail and could make some big miles. Of course, the often pleasant road walk would lull me into a false sense of security. I would get into "the zone", stop paying attention to the maps and miss the turn off the road. Oops. Everyday on the CDT is an adventure!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Voyageur</span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> R Smith <ronyon@comcast.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> cdt-l@backcountry.net; 'Scott Williams' <baidarker@gmail.com>; 'David Thibault' <dthibaul07@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 6, 2013 2:23 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cdt-l] Couple of questions<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5551512491"><style>#yiv5551512491 #yiv5551512491 --
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#yiv5551512491 </style><div><div class="yiv5551512491WordSection1"><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><span style="">I second Frisco. You don’t even need to rent a car as there is a shuttle that goes directly to/from the Denver airport. There are also local shuttles between Frisco, Silverthorne, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, etc. Or rent bicycles and take the bike paths. My wife and I had a great time there, lots of good restaurants.</span></div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><span style="">Ron</span></div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv5551512491yqt2783440284" id="yiv5551512491yqt44096"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net [mailto:cdt-l-bounces@backcountry.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Williams<br
clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 05, 2013 10:34 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> David Thibault<br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> cdt-l@backcountry.net<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cdt-l] Couple of questions</span></div></div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"> </div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal">My wife met me in Frisco and we stayed in a great place in Breckenridge for four days and had a blast. Took a day trip to Rocky Mtn NP and did some good eating at the wonderful restaurants. She had flown into Denver and rented a car. We rented a small ski condo from an individual and it proved to be a nice place to stay as we could cook some of our meals. </div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal">As for road walking, there are many hundreds of miles of road walking on the CDT, but most of it is on dirt roads, not paved. I hope you're problem
is only with paved roads, because the dirt roads are the CDT in many places and for lots and lots of miles. Some of the long paved road sections are coming into Rawlins (part of this can be skirted on trail, but it was too hot and dry for us to want to do it when we reached this section), going around the terrible blow downs just before Grand Lake and just before Silver City. The paved sections of each of these is between 10 and 20 miles. Shorter paved sections are into Anaconda (if you do the Anaconda cut) Grants, Cuba, and Frisco (paved bike path). There are others, but these few come to mind. </div></div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal">If you include the dirt and paved sections I've heard many describe the CDT as roughly 1,000 miles of trail, 1,000 miles of dirt roads and a 1,000 miles of cross country. This is probably too simplistic, and maybe
not accurate at all, but with all the miles on roads of one kind or another, it felt pretty accurate.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal">Shroomer</div></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv5551512491yqt2783440284" id="yiv5551512491yqt16502"><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"> </div><div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:20 PM, David Thibault <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dthibaul07@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dthibaul07@gmail.com">dthibaul07@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span style="">Couple of questions about the trail. </span></div><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span style="">My wife might meet me somewhere along the trail for a couple of days - halfway-to 2/3's
ish (not hiking just in a trail town). Any recommendations. She would have to fly in and maybe get a rental car. Things to consider are easy for her to get to and an interesting place to see.</span></div><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in;"><span style="">I was thinking of starting at Crazy Cook - is there currently a way to get a ride there anymore now that Sam has passed away?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;"><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><span style="">Lastly I really am not a huge fan of road walks, how much road walking is there that is not really avoidable? I have the Ley maps and will be making route changes as I go. I always chose trail over road. I am just trying to get a mental framework on the amount of road walking so it doesn't surprise me.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;"><div
class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"> </div></div><div style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;"><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><span style="">Thanks </span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;"><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"><span style="">Day-Late</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Cdt-l mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Cdt-l@backcountry.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Cdt-l@backcountry.net">Cdt-l@backcountry.net</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/cdt-l">http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/cdt-l</a></div></div></div><div class="yiv5551512491MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt2783440284"
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