Backpakcing Bucket List

[Tony Wong]

I just saw the movie, The Bucket List, which is a funny & thoughtful movie about two terminal cancer patients who meet in a hospital and decide to make a list of things they wanted to do with the few months that they have left.

After seeing it, it got me thinking about what backpacking adventures I wanted to do before I kick the bucket.

Just for fun, list 3 or 4 backpacking related things you want to do before you kick the bucket.

Also, please list your age, as it would be interesting to see the differences in list based on a person's age.

Mine are:

1. Go one a 2-4 week trip with my daughter when she is an adult. (She is 5 yrs old now)

2. Complete the Pacific Crest Trail

3. Complete the Appalachian Trail

I am 39 yrs old.

[Jay Wilkerson]

Hey Tony nice thread, my list is:

Kauai- Along Kauai's Na Pali Coast
Colorado Trail
CDT
Sierra High Route

[Joe Clement]

The 3 big trails – PCT, AT, CDT
Machu Pichu
Everest Base camp. Used to be Everest, but I got too old.

[b s]

NM

[Linda Vassallo]

Hi Tony, great idea. Here's my list.

CDT
JMT
PCT
High Sierra Loop (but not stay in the "tent cabins")

There are so many places I'd like to hike with my husband but these would be highlights that I know of currently.

I'm 59 – the clock is ticking!

LV

[Eric Fredricksen]

1. Tahoe Rim Trail

(Pretty short list, but my bucket is minimalist – only 550ml. I'll resupply after I do #1.)

[John Whynot]

I'd have to say that Roper's Sierra High Route is on my list, but I'm still planning my big trips for 2009:

1 – 2 week Appalachian trail section hike
2 – Maroon Bells 4 pass loop

[Tim Cheek]

Age 50.

Sierra High Route
Anything in Alaska
CDT in the San Juans, but this time with my two daughters

[Jim Colten]

age 59 (soon)

JMT
Wonderland Trail
anywhere a former co-worker wants to take me in Glacier NP
winter BWCAW traverse

[Denis Hazlewood]

Keep doing 6 to 10 day trips (solo and in company) as long as I'm able.

Age: Pretty close to 70.

[Jeremy Cleaveland]

good movie

age: 25

Location: San Juans Colorado

List – very incomplete
A big thru hike (or more than one)
Antarctica – anything (when I find a pot of gold)
Patagonia – anything
Hardrock 100 – going for my first 50 mile ultra this summer (Lake City 50)
Alaska
Baffin Island
Greenland

Climb El Capitan
Climb the Titan (Fischer Towers)
Some big route in the Black Canyon
A really long bike tour

Climb lots of peaks – known and unknown – the more the merrier

share the joy with others

[Jack H.]

– a few hundred miles in the Himalayas (is going to happen this year!)
– CDT (2010)
– finish the Sierra High Route
– a hike in the Semien Mountains
– the Whakan Corridor
– something in the Karakoram
– walk across iceland
– the Hayduke Trail
– China Wall

I'm 25. In three weeks I'm taking off for a year of vagabonding (and hiking!) in Asia, then I'm doing the CDT in 2010 and the AT in 2011.

[George Matthews]

1. Week long hike in Alaska or Yellowstone with both of my sons* (26 and 30)

2. Thru hike the AT and PCT

3. Extended hike in the Alps

I am 54

* – not purposefully excluding my wife of 32 years – she's a home & garden variety that's briefly tried and then promptly retired from hiking.

[James Ennis]

JMT – '09
Machu Pichu – '10
Colorado Trail
Kilamanjaro
Everest Base Camp

I'm 49.

[Justin Chaussee]

interesting topic, thanks for starting this thread.

Mine would have to be:

1) The big three in USA, CDT PCT AT
2) The Inca Trail to M.P.
3) Tahoe Rim Trail (I know, not really one of the more impressive treks, but I've
ALWAYS wanted to do it.)

I'm a young one (just turned 23) so I have plenty of time, but this is my dream list.

[Matt Lutz]

(In no particular order except #1) The list is short on specifics since I have been focusing on #1 since about June.

1. solo Superior Hiking Trail through-hike in winter. (leaving Jan. 3, 2009 – check out Trip Announcement forum for details)
2. PCT/CDT/AT
3. Climb Denali
4. Learn to ice climb
5. Do a big multiweek hike with my brother
6. Do a big multiweek hike with my GF
7. Take my dad anywhere

Edit: I'm 23.

[Adam Rothermich]

1. Superior Hiking Trail
2. PCT
3. Anything in Alaska
4. Couple of weeks on the CDT and AT
5. Everest Base Camp at some point

I'm just a youngin' at 21. There's a lot more stuff I would put on this list since I've done very few extended trips, but those are the big ones I have been thinking about.

Adam

[Mary D]

So many hikes, so little time! Here are the big ones:

Pasayten Wilderness, WA
Wallowa Mountains, OR
Wind River Range, WY (northern end)
Three Sisters Wilderness, OR
Goat Rocks Wilderness, WA

Lord willing (gotta throw in that caveat at my age!), I hope to do these next summer and fall. The two that are close to home were on my last summer's schedule, but the mountain snow didn't melt until August. Since I spent most of August in Colorado and the southern Wind Rivers, and started volunteer teaching in early September, that took care of the "summer"! EDIT: Age 73.

[Roman Ryder]

I actually started a similar thread recently on Backpacker. If you're looking for ideas, you should definitely check it out. There were a lot of trails suggested that I had never heard of…
http://www.backpacker.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=852107219&t=9991114396

I'm 37 years old…

Colorado Trail
John Muir Trail
Wonderland Trail
Appalachian Trail
(Hopefully, I'm doing the Wonderland Trail in August!)

[Jay Trent]

age:17
1. climb the totem pole (tasmania)
2. Walk the western arthurs (tasmania)
3. climb K2
4. walk to the north pole

[Huzefa @ Blue Bolt Gear]

I am 19:

1: learn mountaineering/ ice climbing
2: climb seven summits in SUL style
3: "run" to the poles

[M G]

Cordillera Huayhuash Peru circumnavugation solu UL, self supported,

Los Cedros, Cordillera Blanca, Peru, solo, UL self supported

Return to Auzangate, Peru unsupported. Did it solo in trad style in 98, and mule supported in 2004. Would like to go longer and further UL style, maybe check out the Quelcaya ice cap in the process.

Sierra High Traverse

JMT

Colorado Trail

A long hike in the Wind River Range…

CDT

Hayduke Trail

A long walk in the Torngats,
a long walk on Borneo (Mueller Mtns)
a long walk in Patagonia
a long walk in the Canadian rockies in the fall one year
a long walk in the Australian outback
a long walk in Central Asia

I'm almost 35. Healthy but with less free time than I use to have. But more money to buy plane tickets to far away places. The curse of the middle years.

[cameron eibl]

Not so much backpacking but I guess they are related and I think within the realm of possibility.

Any route on Mount Robson
Sultana Ridge on Mount Foraker
Palisades Traverse (Sierra Nevada, CA)
The Frendo Spur on the Aiguille du Midi
Anything on Baffin Island

I am 17

[Dave T]

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[Patricia Combee]

Age 50

AT
PCT
Wonderland Trail
Allegheny Trail in WV

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