Tag Archives: Continental Divide Trail

Huston Park Continental Divide Trail

Highlights: This hike is a resplendent walk along the Continental Divide Trail where it weaves together a succession of verdant meadows, each a vast, rich, colorful carpet of wildflowers rimmed with pines, rising and falling along the gentle crest of the southern Sierra Madre Mountain range. Location: West of Encampment, Wyoming in the Huston Park Wilderness […]

Mapping the Continental Divide Trail

“Men wanted for hazardous journey.  Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful.  Honor and recognition in case of success.”   That was Ernest Shackleton’s ad in 1907.  This one, run by Backpacker magazine last February sort of reminded me of it. “Want to Make Hiking History?  Join our team to […]