Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
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Representing Grant County Search and Rescue, from left are Andrea Imler, Russ Imler, Laurie Wlosinski and Stephane Luchini.
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Silver City Kiwanis Club grillmaster Craig Pfeiffer flips pancakes, as Lori Bonomo and Bob Carson prepare another grill in the background.
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Melissa Amarello of Advocates for Snake Preservation holds Pipsqueak, a gopher snake.
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Renee Patrick of the 750 miles of the Oregon Desert Trail in southeast Oregon talks about the trail to Big Red.
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Amanda "Zuul" Jameson and Amanda "No Day" Goldstein talk about the American Long Distance Hiking Association West
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Nancy Huber, Leah "Twig" Harman and Witney "Allgood" La Ruffie chat at the SixMoonDesign.com booth.
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julie Shang of Toaks promotes the wares to folks who did not wish to be identified.
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Chris Roybal and Tammy Legier represent Explore Grants NM
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Kathleen Lynch and Rick Sisson chat at the Big Agnes table, from Colorado Springs, CO.
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Patrick Meehan promotes Leki poles to Meyoni Geouge
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Rob Coughlin at the Granite Gear tent.
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Bert and Pete Crammer cant with Marten Schmitz of National Conservation Lands
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Jeff Fox and Dee Milosch chat at the Ospreypack.com tent.
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Eric Ockerhausen talks to Linda Moore and Hong Lee about HistoriCorps projects
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Lynn Mondello of Morning Star right here in Silver City
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Bruno Aguirre watching in awe the huge bubble that Robyn Cruz is blowing.
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Bob Mosher of REI.com
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Ruben, Kaitlyn, Grayson and Amanda Orosco play with the blocks
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Christy and Mike Lopez cant with Zach Crockett about Doc Campbell's at Gila Hotsprings near the Gila Cliff Dwellings
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Alice Bodnar and Paul talks about Guthook Builds of Atlas Guides, which have long distance guide for all the long trails in the U.S. and a lot around the world.
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Lee Gault and Jason Neel of Conservation Corps New Mexico
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Nathan Newcomer and Simon Sotelo of New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
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Chatting about opportunities in Montana are Laurel McEwen, Les Haskill, Marty "Race" Bannon and Bruce Gunderson.
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Samatha Odom of Lady Hike shows off some of the clothing designed just for women hikers, including underwear that unhooks from the front for stand up urinating.
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At the Bemer B Body Professional tent, Crystal Turner and Janna Mintz chat.
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Cute mini-burros
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Back Country Horsemen help a man create his own CDT wooden medallion
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Jeff Stoken shows off his burnt into wood CDT medallion.
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You can see the smoke as the design burns into the wood
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Larry Smith of the Gila National Forest talks trails
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Morgan Dzak, a volunteer, and Gabe Erengolf of the CDT organization
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On Saturday, April 27,, 2019, at the Continental Divide Trail Days event, vendors and information providers set up in tents at Gough Park to sell items and to talk trail tales.