Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
CDT and Warrior Hikers
Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
Bonnie Buckley Maldonado, Silver City Poet Laureate, reads a poem she wrote for the Warrior Hikers.
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
State Senator Howie Morales speaks about the designation of Silver City as the first CDT Gateway Community
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
Silver City Mayor Mike Morones receives the gateway community designation from Teresa Martinez.
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
The leader of the Warrior Hiker group, Capt. Andrew Brennan speaks about the extraordinary hospitality they have found along the trail.
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
U.s. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks about the designation.
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
Several gather around the new sign that will mark Silver City as a Gateway Community to the Continental Divide Trail.
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
The sign up close
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Continental Divide Trail and Warrior Hikers
From left, Mayor Mike Morones, NM Sen. Howie Morales, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, Warrior hikers Rob Voorhis, Andrew Brennan, Ricky Davis, Thomas Gathman, and Chris Rickert, and Teresa Martinez, director of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, which has been shuttling hider to the trail and caching water and supplies.
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Editor's Note: Article to follow later.