Continental Divide of the Americas

Buc-ee's is on there.

And if you, again, are from west of the Continental Divide and you don't know what this Buc-ee's thing is, My middle child went to for her birthday.

She and friends, she lives in Southern California.

She and friends flew all the way across the country to go to the beach in Florida.

a boulder.

Yeah, but no, it's the one as you go over the Continental Divide.

But in any case, that's vision.

Here's this man way back, and we don't even know that.

For example, each sign is individual, but it's related to the others.

And the example they have here is the signs marking the continental divide.

They're shaped like little bow ties, like two trapezoids joined in the middle, but they have all the same colors as like the asymmetrical trapezoids that you see elsewhere.

I don't know what

you mean by the continental divide.

Let me see, U.S. Continental Divide.

Are we talking about like the divide between the North American and South American continent?

I would guess so.

You know...

It's not like it was the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide, the Pacific Crest Trail that was a marked course where you just go out and start following blazes.

And there's a thousand points of entry, I guess, on the eastern seaboard you could have selected and started your route.

How did Folly Beach come to be the starting point?

enough to kind of lift my spirits.

The desert's an amazing place, especially at that point I'd been going for four months.

So if the four months, I know at least how I felt on some of the longer things like the 80 and continental divide, you, you start, you start really feeling great.

I mean, were you, were you feeling great at that point or were you feeling run down? I mean, When was the tipping point out there where you just started feeling like, man, I feel superhuman out here every day.

The places that are at a premium in our world right now, and especially here in Montana, protecting that value that exists on land is one of the most important things that we organize some of our conservation efforts around.

There's a whole lot of other values, like what are the places that are most important for connectivity? When a grizzly bear needs to get from the Northern Continental Divide down to the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, what are the chunks of public land that connect those, the stepping stones for species to take?

And why is connectivity important? Why do we care about it?

Well, I think a lot of people live here not just for our public lands, but actually because of the wildlife that we have in the state.

I spent a few weeks researching locations and finally booked a spot in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

It's a massive tract of roadless land along the Continental Divide in Montana.

The specific campground was located at the very edge of the Wild Boundary.

It offered a few concrete fire pits and a single cinderblock shower facility, but otherwise it was completely isolated.