Bridging the Continental Divide with Teresa Martinez

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Teresa Martinez has spent the last 30 years working on some of the longest and most well-known trails across the country. Her latest project is to connect the Continental Divide Trail so that thru-hikers can follow the 1,200 mile path from the Mexico/New Mexico border to Montana and Canada without having to walk on city streets and highways.

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0:00.0	Going for a hike is a good time to be alone with your thoughts.
0:09.0	You fall into a rhythm clamoring over rocks, crossing streams, and enjoying the scenery.
0:15.2	Recently I started thinking about how trails come into existence.
0:19.4	Who decides where they'll be?
0:21.4	Who are the folks that actually go clear and maintain them?
0:25.7	Theresa Martinez knows all about building trails.
0:28.8	She spent the last 30 years working on some of the longest and most well-known trails across
0:33.9	the country.
0:36.2	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an R.I. co-op studios production.
0:46.9	Theresa Martinez is the Executive Director of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, also
0:52.4	known as CDTC.
0:55.2	The Continental Divide Trail is 3100 miles long.
0:58.8	Our begins on the Mexico New Mexico border and it runs all the way north through Montana
1:04.3	to Canada.
1:05.9	But the trail isn't complete.
1:08.2	There are multiple points where there is no trail.
1:11.7	Hikers have to walk on city streets and highways until it picks up again.
1:15.7	Theresa's goal is to complete the CDT so that hikers can safely travel from one end to
1:21.9	the other by foot.
1:24.0	Making a trail is hard work.
1:26.2	It means digging into terrain, clearing away trees and shrubs and creating trail markers.
1:32.7	Theresa started her career working on the Appalachian Trail when she was just in college.
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