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The Continental Divide Trail is easily one of the most ambitious thru-hikes in the country. The route stretches 3,100 miles from the southern border with Mexico through five states to the Canadian border in Montana’s Glacier National Park. It traverses some of the most rugged terrain in the country, with its high point on Colorado’s 14,270-foot Gray’s Peak. On average, only about 150 people finish the route end-to-end each year, and it usually takes about five months.

Shane made it to the Canadian border in 95 days. Solo.

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Our gratitude for the mostly clear trails took us out of the burn zone and directly into a blight. This trend, of moving from one environmental or logistical disaster to another would remain true for the entirety of our journey on the OTT. If we had knocked on every piece of wood we carried our bikes over during the first two days of the OTT, we would still have been jinxed: no amount of wishing could clear the trail.

As we pulled ourselves up and over the lip of the saddle, a cold wind whipped up from below. It pulled the sweat from our foreheads and brought goosebumps to our arms. Suddenly, standing on the narrow top of the pass, with precipitous drops on either side and glacially carved valleys far below, the vastness of the landscape drowned us.