How Dangerous is the Continental Divide Trail?
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Date: 2020-08-18
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Alan
Last night as I was driving home from my daily forest hike I ran over a small dog that had run off from it's owner. It's alive but I'm sure it will have extensive injuries. So bummed out about that, it was bad. I'll go back to the house and check up in a week or so, I like little dogs. I wasn't tiny, but it was small, probably about 25-lbs.
And when it got run over this enormous tank of a pittie cross about 150-lbs ran out from a yard and started trying to attack the injured little dog. We had to stop it, disaster after disaster. The little dog wasn't lying on the road but it was sitting and couldn't stand. I'm thinking it might have a broken lower spine or/or hip, who knows, it went under the wheels and everything, it was horrible.
Regarding the CTD, while I can see most people go north, I think in a way it would be nice to go south because you start in cold wooly weather or whatever and the further you go, the more the vista opens up into paradise, progressively getting warmer and greener. Or at least that's what I assume. I'm from Australia so don't know the area that well, but I assume the more south you go, the more lovely the climate and environment becomes. And you start out cold and are wishing for warmer weather, and it keeps happening as you go further south.
I wonder why most people go in a northerly direction.
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Last night as I was driving home from my daily forest hike I ran over a small dog that had run off from it's owner. It's alive but I'm sure it will have extensive injuries. So bummed out about that, it was bad. I'll go back to the house and check up in a week or so, I like little dogs. I wasn't tiny, but it was small, probably about 25-lbs.
And when it got run over this enormous tank of a pittie cross about 150-lbs ran out from a yard and started trying to attack the injured little dog. We had to stop it, disaster after disaster. The little dog wasn't lying on the road but it was sitting and couldn't stand. I'm thinking it might have a broken lower spine or/or hip, who knows, it went under the wheels and everything, it was horrible.
Regarding the CTD, while I can see most people go north, I think in a way it would be nice to go south because you start in cold wooly weather or whatever and the further you go, the more the vista opens up into paradise, progressively getting warmer and greener. Or at least that's what I assume. I'm from Australia so don't know the area that well, but I assume the more south you go, the more lovely the climate and environment becomes. And you start out cold and are wishing for warmer weather, and it keeps happening as you go further south.
I wonder why most people go in a northerly direction.
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Steven
I live in Western Montana, and the danger with cold is real, I do mountain hunting trips where we go and backpack hunt for a few days, and just recently the temperatures were in the 70s during the day, and at night they were still around 40 degrees but by morning they took a huge dip to about 15 degrees. My friends had there summer sleeping bags and I was the only one slightly warm in my 30 degree sleeping bag (42 comfort/15extreme. With the constant rain and wind as well in the rocky mountains it makes for a pretty dangerous experience if you are not properly prepared. Be safe and go out a few weekends in Montana/Colorado during spring/fall to see how it is and what you need to bring/change gear wise before doing a thru hike like CDT in the Rockies!
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I live in Western Montana, and the danger with cold is real, I do mountain hunting trips where we go and backpack hunt for a few days, and just recently the temperatures were in the 70s during the day, and at night they were still around 40 degrees but by morning they took a huge dip to about 15 degrees. My friends had there summer sleeping bags and I was the only one slightly warm in my 30 degree sleeping bag (42 comfort/15extreme. With the constant rain and wind as well in the rocky mountains it makes for a pretty dangerous experience if you are not properly prepared. Be safe and go out a few weekends in Montana/Colorado during spring/fall to see how it is and what you need to bring/change gear wise before doing a thru hike like CDT in the Rockies!
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Mike
Surely if more people are going NoBo/Northbound each year and you wanted to increase the probability of seeing other people often you would instead be better off going in the opposite direction to the masses so SoBo/southbound as you would have a constant stream of people passing you where else if you're walking in the same direction as everyone else you might have a person a mile in front of you and a mile behind but never see them?
That's my own opinion regarding this that Dixie commented on around the 4: 00 min mark.
Anybody with me?
see my reasoning + concur?
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Surely if more people are going NoBo/Northbound each year and you wanted to increase the probability of seeing other people often you would instead be better off going in the opposite direction to the masses so SoBo/southbound as you would have a constant stream of people passing you where else if you're walking in the same direction as everyone else you might have a person a mile in front of you and a mile behind but never see them?
That's my own opinion regarding this that Dixie commented on around the 4: 00 min mark.
Anybody with me?
see my reasoning + concur?
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Snarky
I'm in El Paso, TX, I travel extensively in Colorado and New Mexico and have lived in New Mexico. The mountains and basins region is lethal, even to those prepared, even if you were in a warm 4x4 the entire time. Summer or winter. You have to be a mountaineer, a desert survivalist, and a woodsperson. There is no water anywhere, and it is very difficult to carry the water you need to not die. The temps are killers, as are the storms. People have died of exposure in New Mexico in less than a day in OPTIMAL seasons.
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I'm in El Paso, TX, I travel extensively in Colorado and New Mexico and have lived in New Mexico. The mountains and basins region is lethal, even to those prepared, even if you were in a warm 4x4 the entire time. Summer or winter. You have to be a mountaineer, a desert survivalist, and a woodsperson. There is no water anywhere, and it is very difficult to carry the water you need to not die. The temps are killers, as are the storms. People have died of exposure in New Mexico in less than a day in OPTIMAL seasons.
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89
I've been right under a tree that got struck by lightning. Definitely the loudest thing I've ever heard of in my life I've been by F35s hovering in to take off/land, M1 Abrams firing off their 105mm cannon without ear pro. About the same if not louder. Maybe it was the sudden unexpected shock of it happening (pun intended lol) that makes it seem louder.
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I've been right under a tree that got struck by lightning. Definitely the loudest thing I've ever heard of in my life I've been by F35s hovering in to take off/land, M1 Abrams firing off their 105mm cannon without ear pro. About the same if not louder. Maybe it was the sudden unexpected shock of it happening (pun intended lol) that makes it seem louder.
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Edgar
At 13: 13, lightning position.
Balls of feet on ground, hands over ears, crouched on ground with elbows to knees:
this allows secondary strikes to pass through your limbs without interacting with your major organs as the charge travels along the wet surface ground.
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At 13: 13, lightning position.
Balls of feet on ground, hands over ears, crouched on ground with elbows to knees:
this allows secondary strikes to pass through your limbs without interacting with your major organs as the charge travels along the wet surface ground.
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William
Dixie I love your thread and I read it and listen to it but I've got to say on the continental divide you took plenty of chances. I was a stockbroker for 30 years so I know about risk and the thing about it is when you take chances you get away with it until you don't.
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Dixie I love your thread and I read it and listen to it but I've got to say on the continental divide you took plenty of chances. I was a stockbroker for 30 years so I know about risk and the thing about it is when you take chances you get away with it until you don't.
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reev9759
No need to carry the perspective of they, it's been said, you're supposed to, etc. Even though you started the Appalachian Trail never having backpacked before, you have enough experience at this point that you can speak in terms of YOUR experience instead of others'.
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No need to carry the perspective of they, it's been said, you're supposed to, etc. Even though you started the Appalachian Trail never having backpacked before, you have enough experience at this point that you can speak in terms of YOUR experience instead of others'.
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Miguel
Thanks for the colorado shout out! We definitelty are outdoorsy and friendly when on trails. Wind hail sleet rain and snow can happen in summer up in those ridges and as someone else mentioned, rapidly forming thunderstorms almost every july afternoon.
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Thanks for the colorado shout out! We definitelty are outdoorsy and friendly when on trails. Wind hail sleet rain and snow can happen in summer up in those ridges and as someone else mentioned, rapidly forming thunderstorms almost every july afternoon.
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