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Your favorite 2017 outing?

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Dec 18, 2017 at 6:05 pm #3508160

Kattt
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@kattt

Was it a big trek, a perfect overnighter or something in between?

Share it here or link to your trip report?

I will add mine when I have access to my pictures.

Dec 18, 2017 at 6:20 pm #3508167

Ben C
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@alexdrewreed
Locale: Kentucky

I’ll go. It was a trip to northern New Mexico for us. A little backpacking and a little day tripping. It was beautiful. A few pictures.

Dec 18, 2017 at 6:52 pm #3508175

Ryan Tucker
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@beartoothtucker

I’d go with my fall trip to Yellowstone. It was mostly a front country camping/day hiking trip, but we slipped into the backcountry for one night in the Lamar Valley. Here’s a short video. Managed to see a grizzly about 1000 yards away, made me wish I had a better camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DKBuyw5qA

Dec 18, 2017 at 7:03 pm #3508177

BlackHatGuy
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@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

I didn’t have just one, but two, each for a different reason. The first is the new year’s day hike I did with my brother up Mount Si in Washington. It was the perfect way to start the year and we had a gorgeous day. The second was my Sierra trip with Tom. He took me to a few spots I hadn’t been on our previous Sierra trip a few years ago, and we were pretty lucky, overall, with the weather. Other than the first and last day, we only saw one other person, — and she was lost or we wouldn’t have seen her (we did help her get back on track) — during the trip.

Dec 18, 2017 at 7:23 pm #3508183

Kattt
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@kattt

I didn’t get out that much in 2017. A GGG, a Trinity Alps trip, a Ventana overnighter and a couple other overnighters not far from home. The trip I took to Switzerland was great and I got to backpack a bit in new places.

This one was so beautiful it seemed unreal

https://www.flickr.com/photos/katpierini/albums/72157682802892002/with/35753986041/

Dec 18, 2017 at 7:42 pm #3508188

Ben C
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@alexdrewreed
Locale: Kentucky

Beautiful Alps photos. I need to go.

Dec 18, 2017 at 7:58 pm #3508191

Lester Moore
BPL Member

@satori
Locale: Olympic Peninsula, WA

Hard to pick a favorite as they were all excellent, short, UL trips in 2017. If I had to pick one, maybe the Loowit Trail around Mt. Saint Helens because of its uniqueness – photos at the bottom of the following blog post:

http://www.lesmoorephoto.com/2017-backpacking-season-recap/

Dec 18, 2017 at 11:20 pm #3508225

Erik G
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@fox212
Locale: Central Coast

Our trip through Humphrey’s Basin was my favorite hike this year, no question!

Dec 18, 2017 at 11:38 pm #3508229

Jerry Adams
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@retiredjerry
Locale: Oregon and Washington

Probably a late June trip to Trinity Alps

Granite Lake, pass above Granite Lake:

Over to Deer Creek, bear:

Up over Black Basin, looking down Mumsford Basin, looking down:

That first 50 feet was one way – I slid out of control and there was no way I could have backtracked, no traction devices or ice axe. I don’t usually commit like that but I was familiar with the route beyond. If I had died I wouldn’t be posting this now…

Dec 19, 2017 at 12:06 am #3508231

Kattt
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@kattt

@Ben those rock formations are incredible.

Dec 19, 2017 at 6:14 am #3508286

Paul Wagner
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@balzaccom
Locale: Wine Country

Patagonia:

Sunset in Buenos Aires; https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNgGbOLDwKwl15ILNoINHBMChSI1doW3Lw6-K0P5Om14zlGtYzSczqN_NBve0Unog/photo/AF1QipNFAGfXeI0AjDCj3AyW4mYgmyW8XnBc_6oRRyP5?key=ZlBEWDJScFQ2QXpPRDYydFJ5OG9UaE1ZQ3cwRzhB

Cerro Torre: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNgGbOLDwKwl15ILNoINHBMChSI1doW3Lw6-K0P5Om14zlGtYzSczqN_NBve0Unog/photo/AF1QipNFAGfXeI0AjDCj3AyW4mYgmyW8XnBc_6oRRyP5?key=ZlBEWDJScFQ2QXpPRDYydFJ5OG9UaE1ZQ3cwRzhB

Fitzroy:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNgGbOLDwKwl15ILNoINHBMChSI1doW3Lw6-K0P5Om14zlGtYzSczqN_NBve0Unog/photo/AF1QipNFAGfXeI0AjDCj3AyW4mYgmyW8XnBc_6oRRyP5?key=ZlBEWDJScFQ2QXpPRDYydFJ5OG9UaE1ZQ3cwRzhB

The rest of the photos: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNgGbOLDwKwl15ILNoINHBMChSI1doW3Lw6-K0P5Om14zlGtYzSczqN_NBve0Unog/photo/AF1QipNFAGfXeI0AjDCj3AyW4mYgmyW8XnBc_6oRRyP5?key=ZlBEWDJScFQ2QXpPRDYydFJ5OG9UaE1ZQ3cwRzhB

Dec 19, 2017 at 9:44 am #3508289

Ryan Jordan
Admin

@ryan
Locale: Central Rockies

There’s too many to pick just one.

But there are two moments that stick:

A trip in the E. Sierra w/friends and our families on the Bishop / Treasure Lakes Pass loop;

and

My trip with The Girl in the ID Sawtooths.

Good stuff, fond memories, great thread! Thank you for this neat idea!
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