Top 5+ backpack trips that you've done

CatValet · Posted: 4/21/2004, 2:39 pm Post subject:

PS-- Good Sherpa Victor is a lot like "Good Dog Carl" except he drools less... rofl

mike · What box? Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134

Sande J · Posted: 4/21/2004, 9:00 pm Post subject:

Wupatki Ruins Backcountry
Zuni Mtn and canyons on the Zuni nation
Havasupai
Hooli- Peters Loop (w/Heat)
Bell Trail to Beaver Creek and beyond
Charlebois (Traci, it was the Yuk Jack that made #6 qualify)
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CatValet · Posted: 4/21/2004, 11:34 pm Post subject:

Mike that was the seat of my goretex pants failing....

Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

Colorado, Elk Mountains-Snowmass Mountain + four, 12,000 foot passes, 5 days
Colorado, San Juan Mountains-four 14-ers, two 13-ers in seven days.
Grand Canyon, horseshoe Mesa, Tonto Trail circling Horseshoe Mesa, 3 Days
Down Hermits Trail, Across Tonto trail up Bright Angel, 4 days
Dogie Trail, Sycamore Canyon, 2 days
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Kim · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 139

go ahead, Lizard, list 'em. The more the better!
hey, can u backpack in the Chiricahuas or is it just car camping?

kurthzone · Posted: 4/25/2004, 12:31 am Post subject:

Reavis with Candice
Chilson Springs with Candice and Sarah
Mt. Baldy wilderness with Candice
Bright Angel Camp with Todd, Hooli and Greg
Reavis with Sarah, Emily and Arizona Hikers
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tempe8 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: Tempe, AZ

1) Grand Canyon (Amazing)
2) Mt. Shasta (Alpine Ascent)
3) Half Dome (Yosemite)
4) Mt. Whitney (Tallest lower 48th)
5) Havasupai (

Leva · Posted: 4/26/2004, 10:31 am Post subject:

1. Coyote Gulch as a young teenager, upper end of Lake Powell. I tore cartilage in my knee on this trip -- stepped unexpectedly into quicksand and twisted it -- and hiked out with my knee swollen to the size of a canteloupe, but it was still one of the most spectacular trips I've ever been on. There was a thunderstorm the first night, and we were at the big arch (blanking on the name) -- there's a huge arch that reaches down into an ampitheater. We were camped under the lip of the cliff, and water and rocks were rolling off the lip of the cliff in front of us, and the water rose a couple feet deep behind us, where it curved around the base of the ampitheater. I figured if we had to, we could climb up the arch, but the water never rose high enough to worry about and we stayed dry because of the ampitheater.

2. Escalante river, a few years later, loop hike off Egypt Point, I think it was called. It's been twelve years but man that was a trip. Beaver dams, early spring so cold our shoes and water froze solid every night, thigh deep water ... was fun. Long trip.

3. Solo hike a few years ago into Chevlon Canyon. Four days, didn't see another soul. Thunderstorms every afternoon, I hid under my poncho and read a book until they quit, then hiked some more. Had an elk walk between me and my fire pit in the middle of my night (my dog came unglued), saw beaver and an eagle and caught trout every morning. Saw lots of deer.

4. Loop hike in the white mountains -- Grant Creek to another creek that I forget the name of. Got knocked off my feet by a nearby lightning strike, and made a mad miles-long dash back to the car during a hailstorm with golfball sized hail on the last day, but I'll never forget a dinner of trout and rasberries.

5. Hunting trip into the Arivaca area, we backpacked up on top of a ridge and camped out with our tent as a blind. I thought I was hearing mice running around on the tent until we got up that morning and discovered it had snowed about four inches, at 3,000 feet in the desert in November. I'd been hearing snow sliding off the tent. Absolutely beautiful. Got up to snow and fog swirling across the flats below us. I didn't get a deer but I got some great pictures. (And got a good laugh when we returned to the car and the hunters car camping next to us expressed extreme concern about the fact that we'd gone out and "camped out there" where it was cold and wet, they'd said they'd told a ranger to look for us. We had good gear and didn't even realize it was snowing until morning! They had slept in their truck I suspect they were a good bit colder than we were.)

Leva

maryphyl · Posted: 6/1/2004, 5:25 pm Post subject:

North Bass
Thunder River--Deer Creek
Royal Arch
Nankoweap
Red Canyon

The list goes on Wink

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Shihiyea · Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 1135

These are my favorite trips and in this order. Each place I learned something of value which has stayed with me.....I call these my "gifts" that I get to carry with me.

1. Keet Seel
2. Havasupai
3. Man chain islands. Ontario Canada
4. Saganoga, Ontario Canada
5. Barnhardt
6. Paradise Canyon
7. Reavis Ranch
8. La Barge/Battleship
9. Dripping Springs (Sups)
10. Haunted Canyon

I think I could go on, but these are my top 10 so far. I have many places that I haven't seen and are on my wish list.......now this list could go on for days! Crazy

Mary

ChefTIO · Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 100 Location: Chandler AZ

1) Havasupai Falls
2) Aravaipa Canyon
3) West Fork Creek
4) Barnhardt Trail
5) Escudilla Mountain

Shawn · Posted: 6/1/2004, 8:08 pm Post subject:

Big Sandy to Green River Lakes, 80 mi. in Wind River Mountains
Sierrapalooza (you had to be there Wink

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Thunder River/Deer Creek 1st time
Galiuro's, both times
Clear Creek in Grand Canyon
Dark Canyon, UT
Rainbow Bridge

Not necessarily in that order.
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Shihiyea · Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 1135