Hello,

Your contact info wouldn’t let me submit an email so here I am on the comment page. Just wondering if you send subscriptions to Australia. I just moved to Queensland last week and I would love to receive your monthly mess in print! Hope that can be accommodated.

Be awell,

Alex

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Hi Mountain Gazette! Please check out our press release below:

Volunteers Spearhead Grassroots Effort to Help Save the Continental Divide Trail!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:
Teresa Martinez / tmartinez@continentaldividetrail.org / Phone: (720) 340-2382 Fax: (303) 838-2949
Jonathon Stalls / jonathonstalls@gmail.com / Phone: (303) 908-0076

PINE, CO – A new organization called the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) has been created to protect and promote the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), a national scenic trail spanning 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico.

The CDTC was formed as a response to the sudden closing of the Continental Divide Trail Alliance (CDTA) in January of 2012 that left a large and quickly growing gap in all the current and planned trail projects. Staff, volunteers and supporters alike were devastated by the closing. Previous CDTA staff members moved quickly to organize a grassroots all volunteer effort to not let the trail fall on their watch. The CDTC is the product of their tireless efforts.

“The Continental Divide Trail needs professional advocacy, trail stewardship and grassroots fundraising to survive. The Trail is facing pressing threats of industrial encroachment, increasing trail decay and loss of strong advocacy efforts in protecting our nation’s headwaters that directly affect our downstream drinking water,” said CDTC Director, Teresa Martinez.

In 1978, Congress established a 50-mile wide corridor on either side of the geographic Continental Divide in which to build the CDT. The CDT connects countless communities along its spine across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico traversing three national parks, one national monument, 25 national forests, and eight BLM areas. It is one of the three National Scenic Trails belonging to the ‘Triple Crown’ (along with Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail) and is typically noted within the thru-hiking community as the highest and wildest.

“People who care about protecting our wild corridors, both those who already hike and those who dream of the personal healing and empowerment found through long-distance hiking are the only ones who can protect this trail and its surrounding scenic beauty, “ said Jonathon Stalls, thru-hiker and Crowdfunding Campaign Manager. “They are the only ones who can save it, and CDTC gives them a voice. We need the public to know that CDTC is here and ready to build a strong and healthy organization that will sustain, protect and preserve The Continental Divide Trail for years to come.”
The organization’s Finding Our Way on The Continental Divide is one of the top campaigns and was just yesterday featured on the Indiegogo.com homepage.

Thanks,

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