Now this is Interesting

[Graywolf]

I was just looking over the proposed route for the Great Western Trail, proposed by the U.S. Forest Service..The route in Arizona is completed, by using the AZ Trail, Utah is nearly completed except a short section close to the Idaho border..So here is whats interesting:

By hiking South on the CDT then hooking up with the Grand Endchantment Trail in Winter, crossing over and hiking North on the AZ Trail/GWT through Utah then in Spring hit the PNT then West to the PCT back South, you could literally hike for over a year and a half and cover most of the Western half of the United States..

Now this is a proposal I could live with..

Graywolf

[sbhikes]

Wow! Can you make a loop out of it? Never go home?

[garlic08]

It's already been done: http://www.andrewskurka.com/GWL/index.php

[Graywolf]

It's already been done: http://www.andrewskurka.com/GWL/index.php

Ok you obviously didnt read my route, its longer then Andrews route..I am talking hiking down the CDT, up the GWT, over the PNWT, then south down the PCT..Transversing 10 states instead of the 8 by Andrew..Plus mine comes out more of a figure 8 then a loop..

But Andrews site looks great none the less..Mines just longer, 3000 miles longer..

Graywolf

[garlic08]

I was replying to post #2 about the loop possibility. Sorry for the confusion.

I've seen some of the blazes and signs for the Great Western Trail route here in Arizona, on roadways. So at least part of it really does exist. I hiked the easternmost 800 miles of the PNT last summer, and it barely exists. It's more a corridor now, with a few outstanding highlights.