Those of you not subscribed to the cdt-l may be unfamiliar with the Grand Enchantment Trail, (G.E.T.) a brand new 700 mile wilderness hiking route across the Southwest which I scouted, flagged, and have now described and mapped.
Home page:
http://www.simblissity.net/grand_enchantment.shtml
Guidebook:
http://www.simblissity.net/get/guide.shtml
Journal:
http://trailjournals.com/grand_enchantment_trail/
Google Earth virtual hike:
http://www.simblissity.net/get/google-earth.shtml
An online guide is in the works, although the now available CD mapset is highly detailed, with directional notations and around 1000 waypoints. Fall hiking season will be here before we know it. I’ll be on the route again, and these beautiful but fragile lands deserve greater attention from the hiking community at large. Much of this terrain, like the communities and cultures nearby, have been all but unknown to long-distance hiking… until now. Hope to see you out there!
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The Grand Enchantment Trail is a 700 mile long wilderness hiking route across the Southwest U.S., connecting mountains, deserts, canyons, and places of cultural and historic interest. Beginning in the Sonoran desert near Phoenix Arizona, the route meanders eastward, crossing unique and diverse Sky Island mountain ranges, deep and water-blessed desert canyons, the pine-studded Continental Divide, and the southernmost Rocky Mountains, before descending dramatically to the outskirts of Albuquerque New Mexico at its distant terminus.
If you’ve ever felt the pull of wild places, of warm dry air and strong desert sun, of thorny deserts and forested summits, of sheer-walled canyons and deafening silence, ancient cultures and dusty main streets, and the challenge and reward of walking through a rugged, little-known land… We invite you to discover the Grand Enchantment Trail.
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