CDT Guidebooks - Continental Divide Trail

imported
#1

Looking for CDT Guidebooks. Anybody have any of the CDTS guides by Jim Wolfe that they are looking to sell? I don’t mind used as long as they are complete and legible.

Thanks!

heather

#2

When do you need them? This year or next?
PS I hardly ever used them. GPS and Jonathan Ley maps were enough.

Apple Pie

#3

Just read the other posts. You’re hiking this year! I don’t think I’ll have access to my books before June. Would have loved to help you out but doesn’t seem like it would work out.

Apple Pie

#4

I have a set that I got for Christmas that I won’t be using. At time of purchase Jim was revising Vol 2: Southern Montana & ID, and the supplements for Southern Montana (vol.2) and Wyoming (vol.3) so they weren’t available for purchase. I’m not sure if they are ready for print yet but I have everything else. They are brand spankin’ new and not even creased from looking through them. Here’s a list of what I have:
Vol 1 Northern Montana
Vol 3 Wynoming
Vol 4 Northern Colorado
Vol 5 Southern Colorado
Vol 6 Northern New Mexico
Vol 7 Southern New Mexico

Supplement vol 4 Nothern Colorado

Let me know if you are interested. Thanks, Pepper
Porkpie73@adelphia.net

PepperPA

#5

The new guidebooks are out for Southern Montana and the supplements for northern Colorado and Wyoming. Definitely get the supplements as the trail has changed since the original guidebooks were written. It helps to go through the guidebook with the supplement in hand and figure out which sections are outdated (and cross them out) so you can tell easily where to use the original guide and where to use the supplement.

PepperPA - no hope for a thruhike in future?

Ginny

#6

No Ginny, I’m still planning on hitting the GDT/CDT this summer, but my ultralight conscience is telling me to trust that LAy’s maps and GPS will be enough :)See you all in a couple months. Pepper

Pepper PA

#7

The guidebooks are good at telling you exactly where the water is. On the CDT it is often not at all obvious - either because it is off trail or because it doesn’t look like a water source. Many hikers miss Mormon Spring for example - they may get water from the cow puddles and not realize that 100 yards away is a good spring. The little trickle across the road in Montana may be the only water source for 10 miles. If you are looking for a ‘stream’ - you’ll miss it. Hiking without the guidebooks can be done - but it has consequences. Same with hiking with only Jonathan’s maps. I wouldn’t do it. Light is good - but there are real advantages to having more information on that trail instead of the bare minimum.

Ginny