Why hike 3100 miles in a summer? With views like this, why not?
CDT Part 17–The End
I’ve been thinking hard about what to say about finishing the CDT for a while now. It seems like I should say something more than the trail ends at the Mexican border and I made it there. There should be a profound conclusion at the end, right? Well, where the CDT ends (or starts) at…
CDT Part 16–Most Of New Mexico In The Dark
It’s been over a year since I finished the CDT, and I’ve been slacking hard on finishing my journals from this trip. In the time since I finished this trip, I’ve stopped working in a bike shop and become a freelance writer for my primary source of income, thru-hiked the Grand Enchantment Trail, backpacked a…
CDT Part 15–My first steps in New Mexico
New Mexico felt like a distillation of everything I learned in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado combined into one 700-mile challenge. By this point, I’m ready for anything. It was the coldest state, but I was used to that from Colorado. It rivaled the Montana heat wave in July, where I experienced 100 degrees very close…
Sam Schild 