Post your favorite photos from 2014.

50+ nights! That's an epic score. & great pics!

In a rock scramble around Chilao in the Angeles National Forest, I found a rock that looked like a giant chameleon, so I decided to ride it.

How 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.

That'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.

Definitely 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.

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School 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.

View 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:

Some 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!)

Very 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

Great 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…

Eleven day adventure with the grand children on Isle Royale

Wow this is hard…

Backpacking & Kayaking, Vancouver Island

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"Backpacking & Kayaking, Vancouver Island"

Magnificent!

Both outstanding! Keep 'em coming!

Richard

I. Prologue

II. Valhalla

III. Hera

IV. Serenity

V. Purgatory

VI. Artemis

VII. Echo

VIII. Majesty

IX. Fortuna

X. Reverie

XI. Ecstasy

XII. Epilogue

I. Prologue

II. Valhalla

III. Hera

IV. Serenity

V. Purgatory

VI. Artemis

VII. Echo

VIII. Majesty

IX. Fortuna

X. Reverie

XI. Ecstasy

XII. Epilogue

These 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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