Client: Personal | My role: Design, planning and walking!


Imade this map of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) split into each section with basic info like how far it was in between towns, what I thought our daily mileage would be based on the terrain and estimated date we'd be getting to each place. We found it incredibly useful to visualise an overview of the route ahead and get a quick mental summary of the next state etc.

Detail of section planner with our actual data:

This is a pretty enormus jpeg, to see all of it click here»

Detail of section planner with blanks to fill in your own schedule:

This is a pretty enormus jpeg, to see all of it click here»


I hope that someone planning their future CDT hike will find this project and find the maps useful. I've made 2 new version for you to download (both zipped files contain a jpeg & pdf version):

• Download first map - with blank labels for you to print out and write in your schedule.


• Download second map - with the our actual daily mileages and dates that we walked the CDT to use as reference. (I’ve fudged a few figures to make it more consistent). I would say that our pace was fairly ‘average’ our target was 20 miles a day, which seems to be most peoples target.

Oh and of course the base map is courtesy of Monsieur Google (his terrain view is kick-ass).

Here's what we looked like after 6 months worth of hiking!

Note: The last night on the trail was so cold we didn't get a wink of sleep, hence the state of our eyes here...

Here's some pictures from the trip:

You can view all of the photos Paul took here, and you can read all the blog posts I wrote en-route here.

For more more info on our hike:

Take 2 hours off and watch our documentary / video » It is by far and away the most full-on project I've ever undertaken - 3 years planning, 6 months walking and another 3 months editing the video!