Preparations

Continental Divide Trail State and Hike Segment Information
(compiled from various sources on the web)

Revised Hike Itinerary 6-8-05

So, as of Tuesday, May 10th, we are definitely working off of the "Alternate" Itinerary listed above. Heavy snow pack in southern Colorado is the reason, and for those of you interested in checking it out, here are three websites that we reviewed almost daily before our trek, and have continued to visit in trail towns along the way. These websites are updated almost daily (weekdays), and will continue to change throughout our hike and beyond. But based on what we were seeing at the beginning of the hike (which may be very different than when you look at it), we had no choice but to flip.

CDT Postholer:
http://levitator.org/cgi-bin/cdtPostHoler
 
Snotel- western US:
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/basinswe.html
 
Snotel- Colorado:
ftp://ftp fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/CO/Snow/snow/gis_maps/co_update_snow.pdf