Hiking Canada's Great Divide Trail - Softcover

Lynx, Dustin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0921102798 ISBN 13: 9780921102793

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books, 2000

Synopsis

Trekking the Continental Divide, from the US border to Kakwa Lake, just became easier. In the first guidebook devoted to Canada's 1200 kilometre Great Divide Trail (GDT), Dustin Lynx helps hikers piece together the myriad of individual routes that form a continuous trail along the Divide. Outlining the six major sections of the GDT, Lynx breaks the trail into 20 kilometre segments and describes the terrain and condition of each segment. Lynx assists long distance hikers with indispensable pre-trip planning advice, helping them overcome daunting logistical challenges such as re-supply, navigation and access.

About this title

About the Author:

Dustin Lynx hiked the 4300km Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, in 1994. Shortly afterward, while looking through antiquarian bookstores in Vancouver and longing to be back on the trail, he came across High Summer: Backpacking the Canadian Rockies by Chris Townsend. This book, more than any other, changed his life. Thanks to that book, he discovered the Great Divide Trail and moved to the University of Calgary so that he could hike it in 1996 between the final two years of his arts degree. That hike led to a life-long enchantment with the Rocky Mountains and eventually to him calling it home with his new family. He currently operates an I.T. consultancy and an award-winning publishing company called Imaginary Mountain Surveyors. Besides the third edition of this guidebook, Dustin has written for several magazines including Explore and contributed to the literary anthology, Imagine this Valley: Essays and Stories Celebrating the Bow Valley (RMB, 2016). He lives in Canmore, Alberta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0921102798
• ISBN 13: 9780921102793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256