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Dec 24, 2014 at 10:08 am #1323917
For me, 2014 was a year of many great trips. Unlike previous years, it was mostly an amalgam of shorter (3-4 day) trips instead of just a few longer epic trips.
How many days did you get out this year? I don't have an exact count, but near as I can tell it's somewhere north of 50 nights in the backcountry. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the last 12 months. Post yours too!
Dec 24, 2014 at 10:14 am #215894350+ nights! That's an epic score. & great pics!
Dec 24, 2014 at 10:31 am #2158944Dec 24, 2014 at 11:06 am #2158951How many nights out?? Gotta count them up.
Okay, it's 173 and would've been more but unforeseen events occurred in December requiring my presence. The number can be verified here—
http://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpack-2014-Trips-152
Here's a few of my fave 2014 pics—
The Keron tent in a midnight snow atop Flats Mt in TN.
Chantelle crossing Slickrock Creek with her husband.
Patman in Glenn Gap on Fodderstack Ridge on the BMT. I like the autumn colors.Most of my trips were long and around 18-24 days w/o resupply, so my food load alone was around 45 lbs.
Dec 24, 2014 at 11:11 am #2158954That's amazing Walter. Are you retired? I have a friend who broke 100 in 2014 and I thought that was a lot! Both he and I have full time jobs, so hard for either of us to do much more than what we did in 2014.
Dec 24, 2014 at 11:21 am #2158955Definitely retired. Backpacking forums are pretty slow on the interweb and so I participate here on BPL but I'm into SUL backpacking—Seriously Ultra-Loaded. So don't look to me for gram answers or gear hope.
Just like to talk about pretty pics and backpacking—the first and main word in BackPackingLight.
Dec 24, 2014 at 11:45 am #2158961…
Dec 24, 2014 at 12:02 pm #2158963School kept me out of the mountains most of this year but did get out with my dad for a day trip this spring and a few day hikes at the end of the summer with the GF and one solo.
spring is good for waterfalls.
ridgewalking Franconia
gf heading towards mt Adams
watching the Cog go up
oh but i did do about 4000mi on the bike including a ride up the Kanc.
Dec 24, 2014 at 6:21 pm #2159016View of Glacier N.P. from the Buffalo Lakes area:
Trail #7, Flathead National Forest, Montana:
Huckleberries:
Popo Agie River, Wind River Mtns., Wyoming:
View from below the Granite Park area of Glacier N.P.:
Wind River Mtns., Wyoming:
Lost Trail NWR, Montana:
View from Huckleberry Lookout, Glacier N.P., Montana:
Dec 24, 2014 at 6:38 pm #2159017Some big prints in the soft sand of a wash.
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(For Ivo – one of the prior exploits of your new phone case!)Dec 24, 2014 at 7:44 pm #2159028Very slow year for me as far as nights out, and would have been in terms of states visited if I hadn't been able to go out West twice.
Doubt I broke 40 nights, much less the 75+ I normally average, but life happens.Some favorite spots and places:
The Grotto, Walls Of Jericho, AL
Savage Falls, Savage Gulf, TN
Virgin Falls, Virgin Falls SNA, TN
Foster Falls, Fiery Gizzard, TN
Shining Rock Mtn, Shining Rock Wilderness, NC
CT, Weminuche Wilderness, CO
The "Beaver Ponds", Weminuche Wilderness, CO
Subway, Zion NP, UT
Narrows, Zion NP, UT
Angels Landing, Zion NP, UT
La Verkin Falls, Kolob Canyons section of Zion NP
? near Gatlinburg, TN
Lick Creek Falls, Big South Fork NRRA, KY
Pinhoti Trail near Cheaha SP/Wilderness, AL
Dec 25, 2014 at 10:53 am #2159117Great idea. Here are a few of my favourites from the year.
Chilkoot Trail in August 2014
The little lady and the dog hiking up the Golden Staircase on the Chilkoot.
Looking over the Coastal Mountains from Mt. Skookum, Yukon.
The Tors, Yukon
Fish Lake, Yukon
These last two pictures are just shots I took from our cabin at Lake Laberge.
Keep the pictures coming…
Dec 25, 2014 at 12:17 pm #2159130
Dec 25, 2014 at 6:03 pm #2159163Eleven day adventure with the grand children on Isle Royale
Dec 26, 2014 at 9:48 am #2159251Wow this is hard…
Dec 26, 2014 at 9:55 am #2159253Dec 26, 2014 at 12:05 pm #2159281Backpacking & Kayaking, Vancouver Island
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Dec 26, 2014 at 4:17 pm #2159341Anonymous
Inactive"Backpacking & Kayaking, Vancouver Island"
Magnificent!
Dec 26, 2014 at 7:10 pm #2159351Both outstanding! Keep 'em coming!
Richard
Dec 28, 2014 at 11:07 pm #2159736I. Prologue
II. Valhalla
III. Hera
IV. Serenity
V. Purgatory
VI. Artemis
VII. Echo
VIII. Majesty
IX. Fortuna
X. Reverie
XI. Ecstasy
XII. Epilogue
Dec 30, 2014 at 5:01 pm #2160257I. Prologue
II. Valhalla
III. Hera
IV. Serenity
V. Purgatory
VI. Artemis
VII. Echo
VIII. Majesty
IX. Fortuna
X. Reverie
XI. Ecstasy
XII. Epilogue
Dec 31, 2014 at 1:34 am #2160366These are 2 of my favourite 2014 photos because it's the trip where my wife, who feels and fears the cold terribly, discovered that she could go out in the snow and still have fun, thus opening up a fourth season of backpacking for us.
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