Continental Divide Trail Diary Montana/Idaho Hiking DVD

This is a hiking DVD done by an award-winning professional filmmaker.

The DVD Continental Divide Trail Diary: Montana/Idaho is a 76 minute video diary of Tim Hogeboom’s 800 mile trek from the Canadian border to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.  The film details Hogeboom’s hike along the spectacular Continental Divide Trail through Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat Wilderness, the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness, the Beaverhead Mountains, and all the way to Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone.  Although Hogeboom intended to complete the trek in nine weeks back in 1998, it took him eight years instead. Along the way, he got lost multiple times, and experienced grizzly and black bear encounters, a serious tick disease, snow, biblical plagues of flies, the loss of a parent,  a hospitalization for dehydration, and the repercussions of world events.  One of Hogeboom’s hiking partners suffered a trip-ending injury and another was bitten by a disease-carrying tick. 

Luckily for the viewer, the backdrop for these sobering and sometimes humorous events is the drop-dead gorgeous Continental Divide through Montana and Idaho.  Yes, it’s possible to admire the Rockies from the comfort of a tour bus, but viewers of CDT Diary: MT/ID get to see the spine of the divide from the point of view of a long distance hiker – up close, and in this case, very personal.

This is not just a tour of the Continental Divide Trail, it’s the story of what happens to an aging hiker who experiences both transcendental moments and life-altering events. 

It was shot in digital video and produced as a DVD. Nearly all of the filming locations were far from any roads, accessible only on foot (or horseback).  Hogeboom walked the entire route, an unbroken line of footsteps across Montana and Idaho.

Tim Hogeboom is a filmmaker/videographer with over thirty years experience in film and television.  In 1992, Hogeboom produced the award-winning film, North to Katahdin on the Appalachian Trail, which has been seen by over twenty million viewers worldwide.  [Hogeboom carried professional 16 mm film equipment over 2,100 miles in the course of filming North to Katahdin.]   He lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

Continental Divide Trail Diary: Montana/Idaho was released on March 7, 2008.

This DVD is brand new, shrink wrapped, and comes with a guarantee of satisfaction or your money back.  There is a bonus section in the DVD of Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor.  If you win the auction, you will also receive a brief personalized note autographed by the filmmaker.