The Colorado Trail:
The Trailside Databook
from the Colorado Trail Foundation
Winding through the heart of the Rockies for
468 miles from Denver to Durango, the Colorado
Trail is one of America's premier recreational
pathways. It is also a story of perseverance
by the Colorado Trail Foundation, the all-volunteer
organization that built it. Thousands of dedicated
individuals made the trail a reality over
a two decade period. Today the trail crosses
8 mountain ranges, 5 major rivers, 7 national
forests, and 6 wilderness areas, all at an
average elevation of 10,000 feet. It is truly
one of the nation's most beautiful and varied,
long distance trails.
The very popular, The Colorado Trail: The
Official Guidebook (CMC Press: 2002) was developed
to serve the thousands of hikers, backpackers,
mountain bikers and equestrians that use the
CT each year. But listening to users of the
trail, it soon became apparent that an extremely
lightweight, condensed version of this excellent
guidebook would be very useful, especially
for through-hikers and backpackers of the
entire trail. Now here's a new resource for
enjoying the CT, patterned after the popular
databooks developed for the Appalachian Trail
and used by thousands of long-distance hikers.
Ideal for the backpacker, bicyclist or day-hiker,
this essential book fits handily in pocket
or pack. Weighing only ounces, it is backpacker
friendly yet stuffed with an amazing amount
of information, answering all-too-familiar
questions any CT hiker asks: Where's the next
reliable water? Where am I camping tonight?
How many miles have I gone? Where can I resupply?
Studying the existing databooks for the
Appalachian Trail, which rely on short text
phrases, we realized that a new, more graphic-based
format would allow even more needed information
to be conveyed in a convenient, easy-to-carry
format. Information in the new databook
format is presented in a proven system of
keywords and over 30 symbols that convey
to the hiker essential information: mileage
and distance, location of campsites and
water sources, resupply places, trail and
road accesses and over 500 GPS locations.
There's even color-coded mini-maps and elevation
profiles for each of the 28 segments of
the CT.
Part of the new Trailside Guide series
from the Colorado Mountain Club Press, The
Colorado Trail: The Trailside Databook is
small, simple, lightweight, durable, and
inexpensive - exactly what you want for
a trailside companion, and the perfect addition
to our popular full-featured guidebook.
The Colorado Trail Foundation, based in
Golden, Colorado, is an all-volunteer, nonprofit
organization dedicated to the maintenance
and preservation of the trail.
64 pages, 4" x 6", 29 color maps,
paperbound,
$5.95, ISBN 0-9671466-7-4
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