Walking the Continental Divide Trail, South San Juan Wilderness
High, lonely, stormy, rugged and wild. That's Colorado's southern San Juan Mountain range. My friend Tom Brown and I spent five days walking north from Cumbres Pass, near the New Mexico border, exploring the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). We saw no one else for three days, not even another human track. But of everything wild there was plenty: we saw herds of elk every day and heard coyotes every night. Bald eagles cruised low over the tundra, hunting. There was lion sign, ta
