september 2014 cdtc newsletter passages

The Continental Divide Trail Coalition MagazineConnecting the community that supports the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail

Volume 5, September 2014

Inside:CDTC Updates

Never A Dull Moment

Corporate Partnership Update

CDTC GIS Program Update

CDTC Trail Adopter Report

Lightning on the CDT!

CDTC Gateway Program

In Memoriam

Why Hike?

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Letter from the PresidentThis summer, my son Soren and I embarked on what I hope will be an annual ritual – a father son backpacking trip. Only six, this was our second trip together – we’ll add Christian (my three year old) in a few years. I packed everything the two of us would need for one night in the backcountry – two sleeping bags, two sleeping pads, tent, food, clothing, fishing poles, and on and on. I do not want to know how much my packed weighed. We keep the trips pretty short for him (okay for me too – again that pack was heavy!). This trip was 1.2 miles from the car in Golden Gate Canyon State Park.

We enjoyed great weather and slept out under the stars (no rain fly needed). We ate well and had great success fishing at both the front country lakes and backcountry fishing hole near our camp (a few trout each). Needless to say, it was a great success and one more step in my childrens’ indoctrination into nature loving. I’m not ashamed to say it – it’s a good thing!

As a young father I don’t get out on the CDT for epic trips above tree line very often. I don’t see the incredible wildernesses the trail travels through the way I did in my 20s but I know they’re there and I know I’ll get back to them some day. I dream of a day when I’ll be able to show

my boys the trail I had a hand in building – who knows maybe even a thru-hike.

I hope my story – the story of the trail and the CDTC – inspires them to take on big challenges and work on them over decades. I hope they find solace in nature when they need it. I hope their connection to the land is never lost.

Each of you reading this has had a hand in realizing the dream of a complete, well-used, and well-managed CDT. Thank you. You are helping

us pass a love of the land, the inspiration wild places, and the determination to take on big challenges on to the next generation. The CDT is all of these things at once.

It’s connecting people to the land – the day hiker and the thru hiker alike. Its inspirational in its scope, grandeur, and geography. And it’s a big challenge – both to build it and walk it. The CDTC has been in existence for two years now and we look to the future with hope. Many of our short term goals have been accomplished. We’re engaging more people in the stewardship of the trail – our project schedule grows every season. We’re developing smart partnerships with land managers, businesses, and nonprofits along the trail – we just signed an MOU with the Forest Service. And we’re promoting the use of the trail as never before – our Warrior Hike program and Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” talk are just a few examples.

The momentum for the CDTC is building. We could not have gotten to this point in our organizational life-cycle without our first members and supporters. We hope to double our impact in the next two years adding supporters, champions, and advocates for the trail all along the way. We will all be able to say one day that we built the Continental Divide Trail – a trail that stretches from Canada to Mexico over the Rocky Mountains – and our friends, family, and the next generation will all be in awe of it.

CDTC BoardBryan MartinPresident

Josh ShuskoVice President

Kerry ShakarjianSecretary

Teresa MartinezTreasurer/Managing Director

Don OwenCDTC Board Member at Large

Pauk MagnantiCDTC Board Member at Large

Peter SustrCorporate Relations Manager

Val SokolowskiTrail Operations Manager

Dana Foulks Passages DesignerThe CDTC is a 501 (c) (3) not for profit organization

Cover image: Southern Terminus shuttle photo by Teresa Martinez

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CDTC Updates Teresa Martinez, CDTC DirectorIt’s been a busy time for the CDTC! From Montana to New Mexico, we’ve travelled the entire length of the Trail with our work over the past few months, and in this edition of Passages you will find updates on our programs, including an update of our Corporate Sponsorship Program, Gateway Community Program, GIS Program, and some of our work to stay well informed on policy and practices necessary for managing the CDT. But that isn’t all we have been up to!

On May 21, 2014, we signed our Memorandum of Understanding with the US Forest Service acknowledging our role as the national partner working alongside our federal partners in the stewardship of the CDT. We followed quickly in July with the signing of our first Challenge Cost Share with the US Forest Service to support some of our work along the Trail- most importantly the launching of our CDT Adopter Program, and which allowed us to bring on our second staff member: Valerie Sokolowski as the Trail Operations Manager, and as part of our desire to continue to grow our efforts, we spent much of the summer travelling end to end along the CDT to meet with Partners and Agencies to discuss plans and efforts for 2015, with exciting new efforts to share soon!

Some of these highlights include a partnering with the Headwaters Trail Alliance on a CDT Day in Grand County, CO to engage and train new CDT Adopters in the Sulphur Ranger District, a meeting with Montana Wilderness Association/CDT Montana to begin to build our partnership, taking a long walk with the Colorado Trail Foundation to experience the newly opened 17 miles of CDT between Cottonwood Pass and Tunnel Gulch, traveling to Wyoming to meet with Pinedale Ranger District to plan for CDTC Volunteer projects in August 2015, and a field trip all around New Mexico with US Forest Service Partners to meet with all the agency partners in New Mexico and begin to identify our pilot CDT Adopter Programs. This also include a 10-day volunteer project to train potential adopters while building new CDT in the Carson National Forest!

During this time we also attended the 2014 Summer Outdoor Retailer Show and met with many of our existing partners and began relationships and programs with new partners that are helping us build a strong and vibrant community working on behalf of the CDT!

Finally, we moved into an office in August, sharing space with the Colorado Mountain Club in the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, CO. We can’t thank CMC enough for their generosity and being willing to help support our efforts to keep growing! And that has been what the past few months have all been about! In the past two years, CDTC has been steadily growing and establishing the right foundations to support our efforts to steward the CDT. Its been a lot of hard work, but its also been a whole lot of fun. We continue to be ever grateful for all of your support as we continue to build momentum, and hope that we continue to make our supporters proud to be a part of this incredible movement we are building on behalf of the CDT!

Signing of the official CDTC-USFS Memorandum of Understanding

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Never A Dull Moment by Andrew BrennanThe team consisted of 6 combat veterans who began their CDT journey on April 12, 2014. This is a story from one of the team members.

Three trips to the emergency room in my first 45 days on the trail was not what I had in mind for “Embrace the Brutality“. Between the dog bite in Lordsburg (I hate Blue Heelers now), the blister that resulted in Cellulitis and Lymphangitis in Grants, and the fractured foot south of Ghost Ranch (which I thought was a sprain and then walked 70 miles on), my personal experience on the trail has absolutely lived up to the Warrior Hike class of 2014’s unofficial motto: Never a dull moment on the CDT. But, despite the challenges and set-backs I have experienced thus far, I have absolutely enjoyed my time on trail.

I was not really sure what to expect from the CDT, and more importantly the long distance hiking community when I began this endeavor. You can watch all the documentaries, and read the guidebooks, but much like in my old profession, where you can’t learn to lead a patrol on the ground or fly a helicopter in Afghanistan by reading a book prior to the endeavor. The CDT absolutely needs to be experienced. From the desert flowers you find surviving on top of rocks without any sign of soil underneath, to 35 degree temperatures when you are soaked through from four plus hours of rain/sleet/hail, the trail needs to be felt on an up close and personal level.

The members of Warrior Hike came out here this season for various personal reasons. The intent of the program overall is to mirror what WWII veteran Earl Schaffer experienced in his 1948 thru hike of the AT as he told his

friends he was going to go “Walk off the War”. I can only speak to my own personal motivations for this journey and how the trail has impacted me along the way, but I am sure the rest of the group has experienced similar things. It has been somewhat jokingly said by some veterans that, “PTSD is the realization that you will never be as cool as you once were“. And while PTSD is a very serious medical condition that can be extremely difficult to live with, I believe there is some truth to that sarcastic statement. When at 25 years old you found yourself responsible for a squad of guys on patrol on the ground in enemy held territory, or flying a $10 million aircraft with 12 of America’s sons and daughters on-board, transitioning to a civilian job where you are supervising folks moving boxes around a warehouse can be a struggle. Some of us are out here dealing with things in our past; others trying to figure out what to do with our futures.

In my estimation, the trail is helping us with both. It gives you the time and space to reflect. There is not a constant stream of information from your phone, the TV, or internet. When we walk the trail, we often have to confront some of the difficult things that societies’ pace of life actually allows us to push down and ignore. The time alone on the trail is often more austere than a lot of small combat outposts, especially in the sense that you often never found yourself really alone deployed. You always had your buddies, squad mates, platoon sergeant, or wet behind the ears platoon leader around. I think that austerity and reflection time is one of the pillars of the long walk that draw long distance hikers away from cities and onto the trail.

In addition to aiding with the past, I absolutely can say that I have personally benefited from the trail as far as my outlook for the future is concerned. In addition to the time I have had to think about what I really want my life to be about moving forward, I have also found a renewed outlook in my fellow Americans. Every town we have been to along the trail, we have been fortunate enough to have some kind of event with the local VFW post, American Legion chapter, or just with the local community. So many people have been so kind to us along our trek. People opening up their homes, sharing their food, and seeing that

The 2014 CDT Warrior Hike Team


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they genuinely appreciate the sacrifices that we have made in our old line of work. Being an east-coaster, I have found it refreshing to experience that kind of hospitality. I believe it to be a very unique quality of the rural west along the divide; I hope to continue to experience it and pass it along throughout the rest of my journey on the trail and beyond.

About the authorAndrew Brennan hails from Pittsburgh, PA and served with the US Army as a Black Hawk Pilot with deployments in Afghanistan. Andrew is healing quickly and expects to be back on the CDT by late June. The sections he had to skip he plans on hiking after their finish date in September.

The CDT Warrior Hike Team in Grants, New Mexico

The Team at Silver City Gateway designation ceremony

The author Andrew (Doc Rocket), taking a break

The Warrior Hike Team in Wyoming

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Corporate Partnership UpdateIn 2014 CDTC launched its corporate sponsorship program to help support our efforts to preserve, protect and promote the CDT. By engaging the outdoor retailer and corporate community into our efforts, we hope to build a strong alliance for the CDT and also hope to showcase some great companies that care about the Trail and our efforts to protect it!

The CDT is a brutal mistress that brings you plenty of joy and a little pain but she leaves you breathless. I hiked the trail last year, taking in the brutality and the beauty that is the CDT. It was a dream come true and I knew at the end that this trail was special so I wanted to help preserve the trail for my own memories and for future hikers.

Now working with the CDTC as your Corporate Relations Manager I've learned the important needs of the trail and how partnering with the right companies and organizations can help draw attention and much needed money. Your membership, donations and action helps us preserve the CDT for future generations and it shows our partner companies that we are a tribe of people who believe in what we are doing. We have memories or dreams of sitting at a spring in the Great Divide Basin hiding from the sun, walking through the Bob Marshall on alert for bears or that glorious feeling of reaching the border. These feelings help us in our work to preserve the trail and build partnerships with not just great communities like Silver City but sponsors that promote it as well. We are working hard to find those right partners that share a passion for the trail and the love and respect for the hiking community as much as we do.

We have found some great companies already who have helped us including MountainSmith, Salazon Chocolate, HikerTrash, Backpacker Pantry, Clever Hiker, Point6, Woolrich, Vapur, Gregory, Montbell, Mountain Khakis,

Gossamer Gear, Nite Ize, Polar Bottles, Headsweats, Kiss My Face, Sawyer Products, ULA Equipment, REI, She Moves Jewelry, Salomon, Jagged Mountain Brewery, Hennessy Hammocks, Avery Brewery, Deuter, and many more to come.

We are looking for more partners to help spread the word. We attended the Outdoor Retailer Show in August which helped us build on those partnership opportunities. If you have any ideas for companies that share our passion, please email me at [email protected]. Lets work together to help grow the CDT. ~ Peter Sustr, Corporate Relations Manager

Peter Sustr - Corporate Relations Manager


In cooperation with the USFS, CDTC staff and volunteers manage the CDT GIS Information. This information is the baseline for all maps that are created for the Trail for hikers along the official route of the CDT, and for land managers for management of the Trail. Kerry Shakarjian, CDTC Secretary and Founding Board Member, built and has managed this program for over 6 years.

As fall begins to show its colors, it’s time to wind down from summer activities and start thinking about all that has been accomplished the past few months and start planning for the months ahead. For the Continental Divide Trail Coalition Geographic Information System (GIS) Program, that means reflecting on accomplishments and giving recognition to those who have been helping along the way.

As the Warrior Hike crew heads toward Canada during the Walk Off the War program, we have been following their progress. Through the National Geographic Geostory map, CDTC has been keeping track of the hikers’ location as well as their story as they put one foot in front of the other. Their story is told through photographs collected by the hikers while trekking along the Trail and associating those photographs to a location on the map. We’ll continue to follow the Warrior Hikers as they head toward the completion of the Trail at the Montana Canada International border.

The GIS Program has also been updating the CDT interactive webmap that you can find on the CDTC home page of our website. The interactive map now includes Registration Locations thanks to one of our volunteers, Jessica. The interactive webmap also shows the 2014 Project Locations thanks to another volunteer, Ellen, located in Oregon. These two volunteers have created the datasets in order to provide the information on the interactive map for public viewing.

Behind the scenes we continue to work closely with the lead managing agency, the Forest Service, in standardizing

the final CDT GIS dataset so it can be updated in a timely manner into the future by CDT managing agencies such as Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service along with the many Forest Service Districts up and down the Trail. By using a quality control process to update the CDT final dataset, we continue to ensure the data is as accurate as possible when provided not only to the public but also utilized internally by the federal agencies to make management decisions associated with the CDT. The Continental Divide Trail Coalition is proud to be the lead data steward for managing the CDT geospatial data.

Not only do we strive to bring the most up to date information to the public, collaborating with our managing agency partners and utilizing volunteers is key to our success in making this progress and program happen. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and helped to get the CDT GIS Program this far!

More updates to come in the near future!

Public CDT Data Links:

• CDTC web page• Interactive ArcGIS Online map • Google Earth files for download• Bear Creek Survey • GPS Waypoints & State Mapbooks

CDTC Geographic Information System (GIS) Program

Kerry Shakarjian

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CDTC Trail Adopter Report by Ezra YoderThis Summer, CDTC launched its official Trail Adopter Program through the Grand County Area of Colorado. In Grand County, we work with Headwaters Trail Alliance as well as many local volunteers who are passionate about the CDT! Ezra Yoder is one of our first “official” adopters. This summer he has been busy helping sign and collect trail information about the CDT in his adopted segment. In 2015, CDTC will launch and expand its program in the following areas: Grand County, CO, Carson National Forest- NM, and Silver City Ranger District, NM. If you (or your group) are interested in learning about our CDT Adopter Program, please contact Val Sokolowski, Trail Operations Manager at volunteer at continental dividetrail.org

In the past ten years I have hiked all segments of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) from Illinois Pass trailhead, Segment 38, to Greys Peak in Segment 30 except Segment 37. This year I planned to complete this segment of the trail. Recently I became a member of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition and volunteered to do signage maintenance for Segment 37. This segment is from the Illinois River Trailhead to the North Supply Creek Trailhead. It is only 10.7 miles in length but the trailheads are a great distance apart by road and quite remote. So I hiked it by halves from each end.

Hiking the Trail during these past years I would meet hikers completing the entire length of the CDT. A frequent comment was that the trail signage was inadequate in places causing temporary loss of the trail and some backtracking. I had the same experience in some areas including one on Segment 37.

For this segment I utilized some technology I acquire this spring called “The Spot”. It is a small GPS unit that sends its signal to a communication center for distribution to preselected persons. The Spot is somewhat similar to the “OnStar” system available on some automobiles. Several communication options can be activated from the field. There are two options that allow the user to create a specific message online, prior to departure, to be distributed by email and/or text to a selected list of individuals. In addition to the message the recipients will receive the longitude and latitude coordinates of the transmission location plus a link to Google Maps of that location. Another choice is to activate a tracking option which will send an email with the coordinates and Google Map to a preselected email address every ten minutes. My wife loves this as she can follow my progress when I’m hiking alone. An additional feature is the Emergency Signal. This is only sent to the nearest Search and Research organization with the coordinates and Google Map of the signal’s origin.

The photos are trailhead signs, CDT signs I replaced or added, sections of the Trail with some cairns, and other sights.

On my hike from the Illinois River Trailhead I made a wrong turn at the Ruby Mountain Trail intersection sign. Bowen Pass is just above and visible from this location. The Ruby Mountain Trail signpost has two CDT emblems etched into the wood, both pointing to the direction of Ruby Mountain. I recalled reading that the CDT skirted


around Ruby Mountain and concluded this was the way to go. I soon realized that this was incorrect and turned around. Our famous mountain weather was making its appearance and I returned to the North Trailhead. Later I returned and completed the CDT hike in the correct direction to where I had ended my earlier hike from the south. I also replaced the previous CDT sign, pointing one in the direction of the trail.

This is a great hike with many scenic visits. It is a little long to hike both ways in one day, especially for an old man like me. I did enjoy it very much.

Ezra Yoder

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Here’s the second in a series of three articles from Cam “Swami” Honan that will help you plan your next outing on the CDT. Lightning kills, and learning how and when to avoid it may just save your life.

The CDT is arguably subject to more electrical storms than any other long distance hike in the world. Thankfully potential problems can be avoided by planning ahead, staying alert to changing weather conditions and knowing what to do if you are caught in a storm.

PreventionWhen it comes to lightning safety, prevention is definitely better than getting zapped! The key is to establish a routine and follow it diligently. Five points to remember:

• Forecast: Check the weather forecast before setting out on each and every section. More often than not problems can be avoided simply by modifying one’s itinerary according to the short-range forecast.

• Research: Regularly review notes and/or maps of your proposed route, identifying areas such as exposed ridges and hilltops which are particularly vulnerable to lightning strikes. Plan to avoid such areas during the time of day when electrical storms are most likely to occur (i.e. afternoon or evening). Check for possible descent routes in case of an emergency.

• Awareness: Be alert to any changes in the weather whilst you are hiking. Forecasts can sometimes be wrong.

Lightning on the Divide | CDT, 2012 (photo courtesy of Shane “Jester” O’Donnell)

• Danger Signs: If the hairs on your body are standing up, that means that electricity is in the air. In other words, time to get your skates on and exit stage left/right.

• 30/30 Rule: Count the seconds between when you first spot lightning and when you hear thunder. If it is less than 30, immediately take precautionary action. Once

you have heard the last rumbling of thunder, to ensure the storm has passed, wait for another 30 minutes before continuing on your way.

Caught in the StormIf descent is not option and the storm is upon you:

• Location, Location: Keep away from lone trees or rocks. Lightning generally strikes the tallest object in the vicinity. If you are stuck on an exposed ridge, make for the lowest point possible.

• Avoid Metal Items: Set aside any metal items such as hiking poles, ice axe or pack frames which can act as conductors in case you are struck.

• Avoid Water: Lakes, tarns, heavily soaked ground and small depressions in which water may pool quickly during a heavy downpour.

• Avoid rock overhangs and the mouths of caves: This is a good one to remember because it’s not so obvious. Lightning can “bridge” the gap between the rock above you and the ground below you by passing through any object that happens to be in it’s way… in this case a wet and soon-to-be very sorry hiker.

• Assume the Position: Crouch on an insulating material such as your sleeping mat or frameless backpack. Tuck your chin down on your chest. Your hands and bum should be off the ground. The goal is to minimize contact with the ground and make yourself as small as possible.

• In the Forest: If you are in a forest or bush area during an electrical storm, don’t take shelter directly under tall trees. Better to position yourself amongst low-lying bushes.

• In a Group: If you are hiking in a group, spread out to minimize the chance of multiple victims from the same strike.

First AidIn the scenario that someone in your party is struck by lightning:

• Immediately seek medical attention: If you have phone service, call emergency assistance.

• Assess the situation: If there is an ongoing risk of lightning and/or the victim is in a high risk area (e.g. highest point on a ridge or next to an isolated tree), consider moving them to a safer spot.

Planning a Trip on the CDT: Lightning!


• CPR: If the victim is knocked unconscious and does not appear to be breathing, CPR should be administered immediately. It is safe to touch them as victims do not carry any electrical charge after being struck by lightning.

• Check for Injuries: If the victim is breathing, check for any injuries such as burns and broken bones. If you suspect that neck or spinal damage has been sustained, stabilize the victim’s head and treat for shock.

During the 115 mile section between Spring Creek and Wolf Creek Passes, I hiked through four days of inclement weather. You name it; high winds, rain, snow and intermittent electrical storms.

Near the end of two of these days I was faced with a decision; continue on in foul conditions and most probably be forced to camp above tree line OR finish early and descend off-trail to more sheltered environs below tree line. On each occasion I chose the latter option.

I mention these examples to illustrate the following point - a hiker should never be so concerned with mileage and/or getting to a predetermined destination, that they disregard prevailing conditions. In the aforementioned cases, my decisions turned out to be justified as the elements continued to rage unabated throughout both evenings. A handful of extra miles were in no way worth potentially compromising my safety; above tree line in the Rockies is not where you want to be spending the night when a huge storm front is rolling through.

For more information on supporting our efforts please visit:www. continentaldividetrail.org/get-involved/

Show your love for the CDT. Donate or join today.

About the AuthorUpon finishing university in 1993, Cam “Swami” Honan moved to Mexico. His intention was to spend a couple of years working, travelling and learning another language before heading home to his native Australia. Sixteen years later he still hadn’t

left. In between managing his export business, teaching yoga and volunteering, Cam travelled all over the world.

By the end of 2012 he had hiked more than 50,000 miles (80,467 km) in some 55 countries around the globe. Most recently, he completed a 14,300 mile series of consecutive long distance hikes (including the Triple Crown) known as the 12 Long Walks. Over this 18-month journey, Cam traversed through 29 states, 4 Canadian provinces and went through some 28 pairs of trail running shoes!

Over the next few issues of Passages, Cam will be sharing some of his accumulated backcountry experience with readers. Check out his web page for more great information : http://www.thehikinglife.com

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Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, a.k.a. The CDTBASICSLocation United StatesLength About 3,100 milesNorthern Terminus Canadian Border, Glacier National Park

Southern Terminus

Mexican Border, Big Hatchets Wilderness Conservation Area

Highest Point Gray’s Peak, Colorado at 14,270 feetLowest Point Waterton Lake, in Glacier National Park at 4,200 feetStates it Travels through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, & New Mexico

UsesHiking, horseback riding, cross country skiing, hunting, sight seeing, wildlife watching, contemplation, solitude and community.

FACTS

ProtectionThe CDT was designated as a National Scenic Trail in 1978 by the Congressional oversight Committee of the National Trails System.

Thru Hikers

In 2013 we estimate 250 people will attempt an end to end continuous thru hike of the CDT each year. The average time to complete it is six months, averaging 17 miles per day.

Stand Alone

The CDT is the highest and most remote of the National Scenic Trails. It is also the longest of the Triple Crown Trails that include the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails.

Longest Roadless Section Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado

Founded by

Benton MacKaye and members of the Rocky Mountain Trail Association and the Colorado Mountain Club originally developed the concept of the CDT. Jim Wolf and the Continental Divide Trail Society built upon their work and helped ensure the CDT was included in the 1978 National Trails System Act.

First thru hike David Maceyka and a small group documented the first hike of the CDT in the 1930’s.


Original NameThe Blue Can Trail. Named for the founders who first walked the Trail, marking their path with blue cans nailed to trees.

Proposed to Congress 1966

Designated 1978

Sources Continental Divide Trail Coalition, United States Forest Service

INCLUDES

Lots of Space

• 25 National Forests• 21 wilderness areas• 3 National Parks• 1 National Monument• 8 Bureau of Land Management resource areas

The Hike

• Best place/time to start: – Northbound: March or April from Mexico/New

Mexico Border

– Southbound: June from the Montana/Canada border

• Both directions have challenges related to weather and terrain.

• Most people who travel Northbound end up “flip flopping” along the way to find best travel conditions, while most South bounders have the best chance of a continuous thru hike.

Permits

There isn’t a broad permit for the entire CDT, but there are separate ones for Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and South San Juan and Weminuche Wilderness areas.

WildlifeMountain lions, grizzly bears, elk, rattlesnakes, Moose, wolves, javelinas - name it and you will probably see it along the CDT.

Challenge and Risks

Lightning, moving water, avalanche, hypothermia, heat exhaustion and heat stroke, Giardiasis, altitude, snow and sun blindness, wildlife and human error can all play into the chances of a successful “thru-hike” along the Trail.

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FLAGLER FILMSLONG-DISTANCE HIKING CINEMA TOUR

2 inspirational movies - 10 cities - 16 shows - 20 days!

Celebrate America's National Scenic Trails on the big screen this October.

Come watch “Appalachian Impressions” and experience the 2,183-mile world

famous Appalachian Trail. Or join us for “Walking the Great Divide”

capturing the 3,100-mile iconic Continental Divide Trail.

For more information and to purchase your tickets visit:

www.�agler�lms.com/tickets

www.facebook.com/LDHCT@FlaglerFilms #LDHCTour

www.flaglerfilms.com

Come see us in:Austin, Laramie, Golden, Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, Missoula,

Portland, Seale, San Francisco & Silver City

CDTC Launches Gateway Community ProgramWhat is a Gateway Community?The Gateway Community program benefits communities along the CDT by recognizing them for promoting awareness of the CDT as an important national and local resource. The program is designed to:• Engage community citizens, Trail visitors and stewards• Thank communities for their decades of service to hikers• Act as a catalyst for enhancing sustainable economic

development• Aid local municipalities and regional areas with conservation

planning • Help local community members see the Trail as a

resource and asset“The Continental Divide Trail Coalition is proud to celebrate communities that are helping to protect and promote the Continental Divide Trail,” stated Teresa Martinez, Director of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. “These new partnerships will increase local stewardship of public lands, support community initiatives for sustainable economic development and conservation planning as well as support healthy lifestyles for community citizens.”

Silvery City Designed the First Gateway CommunityOn April 23, 2014, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC), and town leaders from Silver City, NM designated Silver City, NM as the first Continental Divide Trail Community with a proclamation signing

and speakers including Silver City Mayor Mike Morones, CDTC Director Teresa Martinez, State Senator Howie Morales, Representatives from Congressman Steve Pearce’s and Senator Tom Udall’s Office, and Senator Martin Heinrich.

The Gateway Community Designation is a component of the Silver City Greenways and Big Ditch Master Plan. The Gila Conservation Education center is serving as the fiscal agent for the Silver City Greenways/CDT Connector Project and grant recipient. Bob Wilson (GCEC Board Member) and Shelby Hallmark (member of Grant County Trails Group) were instrumental in this process.

“We are excited to be the first community along the CDT to receive this designation. Silver City has hosted visitors to the areas around our community for a long time and we are looking forward to the increased regional, national and international visibility this will bring to Silver City”, says George Julian Dworin, Silver City Arts and Cultural District and Tourism Director. “The community designation process has brought us together and we look forward to working together with the Coalition to continue to showcase the CDT in and around Silver City.”

The ceremony highlighted the importance of Silver City’s designation, and also featured an invocation from Silver City Poet laureate Bonnie Maldonado, Aldo Leopold School and YCC Member Bella Bjornstadt, and highlighted the 2014 CDT Warrior Hike team, a group of combat veterans embarking upon a thru hike of the CDT in order to Walk off the War.

April 23 Designation Ceremony

August Planning Meeting of Gateway Community Group

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Gateway Community: Cuba, NMOn Saturday, July 12th, Cuba, NM was designated the 2nd Gateway Community along the CDT. The celebration was a joint effort of the University of New Mexico (UNM), Prevention Research Center (PRC), and the Village of Cuba.

The July 12th event was a celebration of five years of partnership between the Village of Cuba and the

PRC Step into Cuba program. While on the surface the event was a fun-filled community gathering, upon closer examination and reflection, almost every aspect of the event was carefully thought out in order to utilize event as not only a celebration, but also as a venue for outreach, awareness promotion, and engagement with the community. Below are a series of photos taken by Cuba local Birgette Burns that illustrate some of organizing concepts behind the July 12th event.

A primary goal of the celebration event was to establish meaningful and equitable relationships between researchers, physicians, and others in traditional positions of ‘power’ or authority, and local residents. With the Step Into Cuba program, it is imperative for researchers and affiliates, such as Dr. Kozoll, to continually illicit support and input from community partners and to strive to situate research, programs, and treatment within the community context. Because physical activity patterns

and other health-related behaviors are fundamentally mediated by the social-environmental context in which they occur, failing to design culturally salient, community-based programs would ultimately be inefficient and insufficient.

Although Step Into Cuba is primarily focused on promoting adult physical activity, it is of fundamental importance to address children as well. It is known that many important health behaviors, such as physical activity patterns, become embedded as personal habits during childhood. Therefore it is important to foster an interest in, and penchant for, physical activity, hiking, and walking early in life to ensure that as children grow older they are not needlessly intimidated by physical activity. Lastly, many locals describe Cuba as an especially family-oriented community. Thus, in keeping with this cultural orientation, the importance of engaging all age groups and fostering family-wide enthusiasm for physical activity is apparent.

When conducting a survey it is crucial for researchers to remain neutral and avoid asking any leading, biased, or judgmental questions. Gathering unbiased survey data is an important method by which Prevention Research Center researchers measure the reach and effectiveness of their projects, while groundwork surveys such as the one being conducted here are crucial in helping researchers contextualize their research during the design-phases of a study. Lastly, as emphasized earlier, surveys are important because community engagement projects such as Step Into Cuba are ultimately based off of and shaped by community-member input, and conducting surveys is an


effective means of gathering large amounts of community input data in a useful and quantifiable form.

In conducting community based research and running a community-engagement program, it is important to foster a community-wide sense of excitement and involvement around the project. In pursuit of this goal, throughout the July 12th celebration the Step Into Cuba program ran raffle drawings, played music and videos, conducted activities, hosted line dances, and most importantly ran themed booths and spoke extensively with community members about the program. All of the activities, prizes, and booths were designed to attract community members to the event, arouse interest in Step Into Cuba, educate community members about the program, and to act as venues for social marketing. The overall hope was that framing the Step Into Cuba event as a community-wide celebration, rather than just an informational or educational event, would enable locals to feel included and invested in the Step Into Cuba project.

These images provided by the Village of Cuba from their designation event.

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Along the Trail

Trail work in the CarsonHikerTrash and AllGood at OR Summer MarketJeremy from Mountain Smith showing off Salazon Chocolate at the OR Summer Market

New CDT near Pie Town, NM Aldo Leopold students proudly wearing Silver City Gateway shirts

Along the trail near Cuba, NM


John P. Kavchar, 62, of Silver City, NM, died on June 7, 2014, doing a thing he loved in a place he loved: riding his horse Sundance in the Gila National Forest. Cremation has taken place under the direction of Bright Funeral Home. John was born on May 22, 1952, in Minneapolis, MN, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Fridley. As a young man he left home and began a life of travel and adventure that took him across the United States and the world, including a year-long trek through Mexico and South America, during which he taught himself Spanish. His work life included stints as a truck driver, private investigator, bartender, gentleman rancher, PR man for a race-car team, deputy marshall in Telluride, CO, and claims investigator for Lloyds of London. At his death he was president and part owner of LC Aero, an airplane repair shop in Las Cruces. Fifteen years ago he and his wife Miquette Magnusson moved to the Silver City area and began working as the fire lookouts on Signal Peak, a job he continued after her untimely death from cancer in 2002. He loved to fly his own airplane, a Cessna Cardinal,

and signed on as an air angel, flying patients in need of medical care to distant hospitals free of charge. He also loved race cars, in particular his Ford GT40, the first American-made car to win the 24-hour race at LeMans and a machine he was known to drive at more than 130 miles per hour when he felt the need for speed. He enjoyed both solitude and the company of loved ones in equal measure. He did not settle for a handshake from friends. If he cared about you he greeted you with one of his trademark bear hugs. He was also one of those rare men who would cry with you, unashamed, when tears were called for. He was a handsome fellow, playful and mischievous, a rare genius in the art of living boldly—not without struggle or disappointment along the way, but in spite of that, or because of that, he was a man willing to get intimate with friends, to ask the tough questions and go heart deep with you on any subject under the sun, no exception. His curiosity was insatiable. He had no tolerance for injustice and loved to conspire with friends over ways to fight it. Yet he remained light of heart, a trickster, an adventurer, one of those shining knights with huge reserves of empathy whom you meet once or twice in this life if you’re lucky. He’d bring food to your house if you got sick. He’d call to check in if he knew you were blue. At his post on Signal Peak he made elaborate meals to share with long-distance hikers and showed children how a few dabs of red lipstick could lure hummingbirds to drink sugar water straight out of his mouth. He knew the company of mule deer and turkeys and bears and bobcats in the area around Signal Peak, and over the years he called in hundreds of fires in the Gila, including most recently the

Signal Fire. Within an hour of spotting it he’d been forced to evacuate his tower with his fiancée Teresa Beall, herself a lookout on the Gila for 24 years and the woman with whom he looked forward to spending the rest of his life. He made no big deal of their rush to safety, joking afterward about needing to hit the hot tub as soon as he got home, since it had been an unusually vigorous and exciting day at the office, even as he took it upon himself to personally update local landowners on the progress of the fire. He laughed more than any man we knew, as often as not at himself, his torso leaning back, his blue eyes glittering and his belly shaking, a laugh that all who knew him will always remember. Among his colleagues in the Forest Service he will be missed for his communication skills, his deep knowledge of the country, his unmistakable radio voice, and his keen eye for smoke. He was preceded in death by his parents, Peter and Agnes. He is survived by his fiancée, Teresa Beall, of Silver City; his sister, Hedy Holmberg, of Edina, MN; and nephews Michael and Andrew. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Continental Divide Trail Coalition at P.O. Box 552, Pine, CO 80470. Bright Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, 210 W. College Ave., Silver City, NM 575-388-1911. To send condolences login to http://www.brightfuneral.net/

About the authorFor over 10 years, Wall Street reporter, Phillip Connors, has spent half a year keeping watch over New Mexico’s Gila Forest as a fire tower watchman.

In Memoriam: John Kavchar by Phillip Connors

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Why Hike? by Mike “Hiker Box” HenrickThere is a long, silent simplicity in hiking long trails for periods of time that seem to stretch beyond measure. Days are enjoyably repetitive. Wake with the chirp of birds before dawn, eat, walk, eat some more and sleep not long after sunset. Watch the landscape transform before your eyes as the earth turns under the soft soles of your feet. That quiet simple life changes you after the opposite terminus is reached, celebrations are had and the return home is over. Home doesn’t seem to mean what it used to once you’re back with all the added complications of job, life and family. Few around you truly understand what you’ve just left back on trail; you don’t understand either. At first I imagined some of what I felt was shared by captured animals, once wild and now confined to cage by some imaginary zoo keeper. I now see that it’s closer to finding something incredible you never knew you had and watching it slip from your grasp. All it takes to get back is a long tenuous reach down to hold it tight and close for a little while longer.

I admit I am still new to this and just now making the first long reach to pick it back up. The first and only trail so far was the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) – an incredibly scenic journey along a well-established route among a community of supporters who were almost too helpful. That trail was initially daunting, the most I had ever hiked was 28 miles in three days and nearly 2,700 and five months were ahead! Occasionally, I would meet past through hikers on their second, third or fourth through hike and stand in awe of how so many miles could be walked in such short time. After I reached Canada only four days before snow storms piled six feet of snow on my friends still on trail, I would often sit in awe of what I had just done, that it had actually happened and was not some uninterruptable dream or drug induced hallucination. I quickly found a new job in a new city, only slightly different than the one I left and tried to readjust. Soon my aching feet began to heal and life settled back into a dreary repetition of wake, eat, work, eat some more and sleep. Ironic that I had swapped one day cycle for another, the biggest differences being money and nature – two opposites that don’t seem to coexist. Could I still see everything I wanted to on three weeks of vacation a year and weekends? I had just been hiking for almost five months!

I struggled with the job, both with my own performance and the fate that I had temporarily signed up for. My mood seemed to slide back into the dull restless anxiety

I thought I had left behind when I left for the PCT. No amount of day hikes, skiing or bike rides seemed to help. One day I started planning the next trip. Maybe a week in the Sierra, this time going west to east on the High Sierra Trail? Or a week on the Wonderland Trail? What about a section of the Sierra High Route? Could I keep putting off life for work and money until… Something? Retirement?

No. I can’t do it. The anxious waiting for life is too much but if I was going to quit my job again, to take that long tenuous reach down, it wouldn’t be just for one trail and I would have to do something drastically different when I got back. Eventually I thought about the places I wanted to go, which trails I wanted to hike and when they would best be hiked. At that moment they seemed to line up. A southbound trip on the Arizona Trail in fall, just after the southwest monsoon season replenishes the water and the same desert heat that once nearly ended my PCT thru-hike starts to mellow. Then to New Zealand, for one of the newest long distance trails – the Te Araroa. Even most Kiwi’s haven’t heard of it but it’s there and it looks incredible (minus the road walking). After it all I still didn’t want to be done and felt a strange draw to biggest, toughest, and loneliest of the Triple Crown – the CDT (sorry AT!). The timing would be ripe for a spring northbound hike – or if something comes up I could southbound in July, making it a year of south bounding, towards the pole not just the equator.

What about when I finish, whatever that ends up meaning? I believe opportunities exist when you aren’t chained to a desk for five days a week, desperate for recreation in the little time left on weekends and evenings but welded to the temporary stability and certainty working for someone else provides. I have a small chance for some contract work that would be well paid but requires flexibility on my part. I could restart my old sports photography company, maybe write a book. Who knows? For now I’m still young, capable and restless.

Three trails, over 5,000 miles, but how did they get there? I find it incredible that I was able to walk almost entirely on trail through linked wilderness areas, parks, federal and conservation land from Mexico to Canada with few road walking interruptions. The amount of labor required to build and maintain even a few miles of trail is huge, but for thousands of miles unimaginably vast. This time around I


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don’t want to only take from the work thousands of others have done for me in organizing, negotiating, managing, building and maintaining the trail. This time I want to give back. First a week of trail maintenance on the PCT, in the Goat Rocks Wilderness of all places. It so beautiful there I could be cleaning toilets in the Goat Rocks and still not feel like I was doing work. So I want to do more, but I also want to hike. I remembered all the people I met along the way and a few that were hiking for causes. How could they hike for a cause if there was no trail? Who hikes for the trails, instead of the cares of the real world? That’s something I can do – so I started a fund raiser online. I don’t think anyone takes me seriously, until I start walking and keep walking, across six states and two countries. We’ll see. For now, I mostly think about whether I’m running away from a life behind a desk or running towards something greater, something unknown. John Muir once said spend a summer in the woods, if he was right than a year must surely be better than a summer.

About the AuthorMike Henrick grew up on the east coast and fell in love with through hiking across the west coast on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013. Rather than hike for a worthy but external cause, he is raising money for the trail associations that help make the Arizona Trail, Te Araroa and Continental Divide trail possible by hiking each trail over the next year. Please consider donating or sharing the fund raiser on facebook here: https://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/campaigns/fmYf1

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CDTC Attends National Scenic Trails Workshop by Val SokolowskiThis spring volunteers and staff from CDTC including Teresa Martinez, Val Sokolowski and Liz Thomas attended the National Scenic Trails workshop in Lake Tahoe.

The National Scenic Trails workshop is a program of the Partnership for the National Trails System (PNTS), a group that “connects member nonprofit trail organizations and federal agency partners to further the protection, completion, and stewardship of the 30 National Scenic and Historic Trails within the National Trails System.”

The 2014 workshop was hosted by the Pacific Crest Trail Association and included representatives from 9 of the 11 National Scenic Trails as well as federal agency partners and representatives from the Trust for Public Land, Backcountry Horsemen of America, American Hiking Society and others.

Group photo of conference participants

This biennial workshop provided an opportunity for colleagues from the 11 National Scenic Trails to reconnect and collaborate on issues we face in protecting and supporting our trails and the National Trails System. Participants represented all facets of the NST management teams; from field staff to Directors and Development and IT personnel.

The workshop covered topics on Trail Management, Protecting NST’s and their corridors, Organization Management and Development and Outreach. The workshop also utilized the Open Space meeting approach, allowing for most sessions to be focused on discussion and information exchange rather than formal presentations.

Additionally, intentional “free time” was included in the schedule to allow for last minute topics to be added to the schedule, usually as a result of a compelling discussion that occurred during one of the sessions.

PNTS also sponsored nine young professionals to attend the workshop as part of the Trails Apprenticeship program. The Trail Apprentice Program is coordinated by CDTC Director Teresa Martinez and aims to engage young professionals in the future of conservation leadership. The program has engaged over 70 apprentices since its inception in 2009. Apprentices participated in all of the workshop topics and were provided the opportunity to network with trails professionals while adding the perspective of the future generation of our Trail System.

CDTC had a very productive (and fun!) week of engaging with our partner trails groups and we certainly brought home a lot of new knowledge on how to continue protecting and supporting the CDNST and how to continue our successes as a member of this National System of Scenic Trails.

2014 Trail Apprentices with representatives from PCTA and CDTC (photo courtesy of Jack Haskel, PCTA)

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Thru Hiker List as of September 20141973Eric Ryback**

2002Michelle “Shell” EllinwoodRobert “Dr. Bob” EllinwoodTim ” Starman/Camel” HartPete “Smokey Pete” SchlottRobert “Sly” Sylvester

2003Joseph “Joe Joseph” Santiago

2004Jackie “Yogi” McDonnell

2006Shawn “Pepper” ForryLawton “Disco” GrinterFelicia “Princess of Darkness” Hermosillo

2007“Lint” Bunting

2008Brian Miller

2009Dylan CarlsonAnneliese Ring

2010Jacob “Don’t Panic” DownJack “Found” HaskelPhilip “Nowhere Man” HoughKatie “Wing It” HoweDeb “Walking Carrot” HunsickerAvelino “Makai” Tamayo

2011Drew “Abear” HebertKevin “Fandango” JacobsBrian “Gadget” LewisBen “Smooth” NewkirkScott “Voyager” Piddington

2012Kaitlin “Jetpack” AllenJerry Brown

“Coyote”Elaine “Brazil Nut” Bissonno“Lint Hikes” Cam “Swami” Honan Nancy “Why Not?!” HuberShane “Jester” O’DonnellRichard “Handlebar” Ostheimer

2013Phoebe “Slam!” AndujarMeredith “Ninja” AtlandBeau “Puck” BakerDain BrayElisabeth “LoveNote” ChaplinEric “Balls” GjonnesReed “Sunshine” Gjonnes * Kevin “Aquaman” HallTom “Bigfoot” HolzThomas “Uncle Tom” Jamrog John “PaPa Smurf ” Klebes Jeremy “Qball” MarbleSaito “Masa” MasafumiBrian “Speed Bump” MiracleJanie “Not Yet” Faucette Moore

Randy “Macon Tracks” MooreAaron “Burly Whites” PhilabaumHans “Norm!” Rudi PrallerLauren “Neon” ReedErin “Wired” Saver Christopher “Brun” SellersWilliam “Estero” StephensShian “Barrell Roll” SungBrennan “Sparrow” VandekerckhoveDomonick “Safety Officer” Zanarini

2014Nicolas “Lorax” Roman

* as of 2013, Sunshine is the youngest triple crowner reported** first triple crowner ever reported

Disclaimer: This is by no means a complete list. This is simply the list of folks who have informed us that they have completed the CDNST and have received a CDT Completion certificate from CDTC.

Are you a CDT thru hiker?Section hikers/riders and thru hikers/riders who complete the CDT can report their journey to the Continental Divide Trail Coalition by filling out the Continental Divide Trail Completion Form. CDT thru-hikers/riders who report their adventure along the CDT will be added to our roster of thru hikers/riders and will receive a certificate of recognition and a CDT Patch. Also, each year’s thru hiker roster is published in the March/ April newsletter. In order to be included in the magazine, regardless of the year of completion, applications must be sent to CDTC by December 31st of the current year.

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Charter Members Rex Alford and Alice PiersonGene AllenRex Alford and Alice PiersonGene Allen Vince Auriemma Roanoke Appalachian Trail ClubMark Bankey Chris and Sanne BagbyMike BatesSusan BatesLyndon BerryJim Boeck and Vivian Wilson Jerry and Helga Bell Paul Breed Bob Brewer Jerry Brown Chris Burke Kevin Burns Jeremy Burton Clare Cain Elisabeth Chaplin Paul Corbeil Carolyn Crump Mike Dawson David Dolton John Dufour Bob and Shell Ellinwood Dianne Evans Brian Fahlstrom Allen Filson

Mark Flagler Arthur and Denise Foley Dana Foulks Sara GlasgowPaul GriffithLawton Grinter and Felicia Hermosilla Tambi Gustafson Jim Hansman Frank and Jean Anne HaranzoJames Harrold Tim Hart Jack Haskel Deb Hayes Josephine HazelettJesse Hill James Hlavaty Olivia Holmes Thomas Holz Nancy Huber Peter Karnowski 2013 FB CDT hikers/Lisa KarstMatthew Kaufmann Karen Keller Copper Kettlle Brewing Christine and Brad Klafehn Duane Koss Dick KozollRobert Kristoferitsch Whitney LaRuffa David Lattier Kevin Linebarger Rebecca Louden-Louden

Family FoundationReese Lukei Paul Magnanti Lydia Mahan Barney and Sandy MannBryan and Sally Martin Alex Martinez familyNicolas Martinez Teresa MartinezChris McMaster-ULA Equipment Gary Monk Janie and Randy Moore Peter Necarsulmer Jean Neely John and Lisa Nelson Jim O’Brien Pat O’DonnellShane O’Donnell Stephen Olson Richard Ostheimer Don and Amy Owen Taylor and Nancy Owen Greg PierceBrad Pierson Bill and Debra Pollick Bruce Prior Miguel Quinones John Rowland Erin Saver Carlos Schomaker Kerry ShakarjianSteven Sheppard

Josh and Lisa Shusko Mal Sillars James Sippel Dave and Sandy Slowey Chris Smith Morgan Sommerville Steve Staley Philip Storey Rebecca Sudduth and Daniel Weber Robert Sylvester George Szeremeta Michael Tam Olli Tam Avelino Tamayo Don Thompson Kathy Trotter Daniel Weber Gary Werner and Melanie LordScott Williams Bernard Wolf Mike WollmerBill Youmans Tim Zvada

A big thank you to everyone who has joined the CDTC and all who made contributions. We wouldn’t be here without you.


For more information on how you may support our efforts, please go to our web siteor contact: Teresa Martinez at [email protected]

Quarterly Donors$101-$500AnonymousDeb HayesNancy HuberBarney and Sandy MannMal SillarsMichael TamKathy TrotterBernard Wolf

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July 2014 Donors$101-$500Copper Kettle Brewing CompanyMike HenrickDeb KellerJeffrey KoppAdam MackstallerJoseph and Julie MnukJohn RowlandMark SleeperSteve StaleyJonathon StallsPorter StoreyKenda Willey

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Business PartnersCDTC wishes to thank the following business and companies for all your support this year and willingness to become a CDTC Business Member. For more information on how your company or business may collaborate with CDTC please go to our website or contact: Teresa Martinez at tmartinez at continentaldividetrail.org285 BoundAC Golden BreweryBackpackers Pantry Bear Creek SurveyChacoClever Hiker Copper Kettle Brewing Deter Outdoors DeuterDouble Diamond DigitalFireside Bed & Breakfast

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