Your favorite 2017 outing?

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.

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

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.

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/

Beautiful Alps photos.  I need to go.

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/

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

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…

@Ben those rock formations are incredible.

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

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!