Celebrating the Most Incredible Trail in America

The Colorado Trail celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, marking a significant milepost in any long trail’s development. This 500-mile footpath from Denver to Durango represents one of the most unique long trails in America given that it is one of the few founded by a woman, Gudy Gaskill. The combination of the trail’s history and hiking community makes it perfect to tell the story of how hiking serves as an unbroken source of human connection.

The Project

At the most basic level, this documentary, tentatively titled 50/50 on the Colorado Trail, will capture the story of a hiker celebrating the Colorado Trail’s 50th anniversary by thru-hiking the footpath using only gear that was available at the time of the trail’s founding. The film will blend new footage and on-trail interviews with archival footage to tell the story that hiking gear might have evolved, yet the outdoors has become an even greater source of human connection.