Camping adventures - where do you wanna go?

[Roxanne Appleby]

McKenna's new backpack got me thinking . . .

I want to go backpacking in the Rockies in the summer. Rigorous but nothing extreme - just three or four nights away from roads and the sights and sounds of humans, except for the trail itself. Camp by creeks in the evening, look up at billions and billions of stars.

Ditto the rain forests of the Northwest, perhaps in early fall, or whenever said forests are a bit less likely to merit their rain-forest moniker.

Ditto the White Mountains and similar patches of New England, during the fall color season.

I wanna do a rigorous and adventurous Boundary Waters/Quetico canoe trek. One with long portages where we're out for at least a week, so you really have to have your shit together.

I want to do these things while I'm still vigorous and healthy enough to be able to.

(McKenna, darling, that pack is darling, but the 3,500 or so cubes just aren't going to be enough on these trips.)

(So - when do you wanna go? )

 

[JagFarlane]

McKenna's new backpack got me thinking . . .

I want to go backpacking in the Rockies in the summer. Rigorous but nothing extreme - just three or four nights away from roads and the sights and sounds of humans, except for the trail itself. Camp by creeks in the evening, look up at billions and billions of stars.

Ditto the rain forests of the Northwest, perhaps in early fall, or whenever said forests are a bit less likely to merit their rain-forest moniker.

Ditto the White Mountains and similar patches of New England, during the fall color season.

I wanna do a rigorous and adventurous Boundary Waters/Quetico canoe trek. One with long portages where we're out for at least a week, so you really have to have your shit together.

I want to do these things while I'm still vigorous and healthy enough to be able to.

(McKenna, darling, that pack is darling, but the 3,500 or so cubes just aren't going to be enough on these trips.)

(So - when do you wanna go? )

Lets see....

Rainforests in Washington

British Columbia

Mt Kilimanjaro

Maine

Colorado

Few places in Europe

LOL Roxanne well I've got a pair of 5800 cu in packs if ya need to borrow one

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Lets see....

Rainforests in Washington

British Columbia

Mt Kilimanjaro

Maine

Colorado

Few places in Europe

LOL Roxanne well I've got a pair of 5800 cu in packs if ya need to borrow one

I think my old Mountainsmith is 6,300 cubes or so, so I'm good., thanks. When do we leave?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Heber Springs, Arkansas.

supplies needed: one tent, a sleeping bag, two steaks and two potatoes.

 

[JagFarlane]

I think my old Mountainsmith is 6,300 cubes or so, so I'm good., thanks. When do we leave?

LOL whenever I can get to my storage shed and pull out my tent...

 

[Guest]

Where can I plug in my laptop?

I love the sound of the woods in the early morning. The birds chirping, the water lapping in the lake, all those terrific wildlife waking up noises -

But I prefer to hear those sounds from the inside of our cabin. With running water. And electricity.

I am a rotten camper.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Heber Springs, Arkansas.

supplies needed: one tent, a sleeping bag, two steaks and two potatoes.

Really? Interesting. How are the bugs - lots of scary creepy-crawlies? (I'm a north-country wimp - nasty black-flies and skeeters in season, but nothing deadly or really creepy.) When's the best time to go?

 

[SeaCat]

Where would I like to go camping?

Oh so many places to choose from. Both places I have been and wish to return to and places I haven't visited yet but have heard about.

Then again I have been known to take the camping to rather extreme levels and love to get out in the true middle of no-where.

One place that I would truly love to be camping in though would be Yellowstone in late fall early winter.

Cat

 

[JagFarlane]

Where would I like to go camping?

Oh so many places to choose from. Both places I have been and wish to return to and places I haven't visited yet but have heard about.

Then again I have been known to take the camping to rather extreme levels and love to get out in the true middle of no-where.

One place that I would truly love to be camping in though would be Yellowstone in late fall early winter.

Cat

-chuckles- personal goal before I die...hike the AT

 

[SlickTony]

The place I described in my Earth Day story? It really does exist. The reason we don't go there anymore is not because we ran up against an angry woods deity, but because we, i.e., we and the group we were with, were rousted by the Santa Rosa County sheriff's men. And my husband hasn't wanted to go back since. I'd like to visit the place once again before I'm too old and decrepit to go scrambling up and down creek banks.

 

[Liar]

So I'm in Rome tomorrow

Never been in Italy. I've got an afternoon to kill tomorrow, before some press dinner in the evening, and a string of briefings the other day.

Where should I go? What should I avoid? What do I tip?

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Never been in Italy. I've got an afternoon to kill tomorrow, before some press dinner in the evening, and a string of briefings the other day.

Where should I go? What should I avoid? What do I tip?

Wander the forum, and visit St. Peters.

Have fun - I'm jealous.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Victoria Island
The Canoe Country
Okeefanokee
The Appenines
Back to Mozambique

sigh

So much world, so little time.

 

[Weird Harold]

-chuckles- personal goal before I die...hike the AT

When I was much younger I had ambitons of hiking the full length of the Skyline Trail along the summit of the Cascades.

Now I'm older, less fit, and addicted to the Internet, so anywhere I can't go in a (rented) 40 foot Motorhome with Satelite TV and Internet is pretty much off my list of camping adventures.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

When I was much younger I had ambitons of hiking the full length of the Skyline Trail along the summit of the Cascades.

Now I'm older, less fit, and addicted to the Internet, so anywhere I can't go in a (rented) 40 foot Motorhome with Satelite TV and Internet is pretty much off my list of camping adventures.

You wouldn't settle for a 30 footer?

 

[R. Richard]

Where can I plug in my laptop?

I love the sound of the woods in the early morning. The birds chirping, the water lapping in the lake, all those terrific wildlife waking up noises -

But I prefer to hear those sounds from the inside of our cabin. With running water. And electricity.

I am a rotten camper.

Hear! Hear! In my work I sometimes have to camp out while in pursuit. It aint fun and it aint nice. I always try to impress the fact on the customers when I catch them.

 

[DesertPirate]

A guided hunt for elk and deer in Montana or Wyoming requiring a 2 day minimum horseback ride to camp. No vehicles allowed.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

A guided hunt for elk and deer in Montana or Wyoming requiring a 2 day minimum horseback ride to camp. No vehicles allowed.

For deer and elk, northern Arizona! I know it sounds odd, but trust me on this one. And up on the Mogollon rim the scenery is just as fine.

 

[DesertPirate]

For deer and elk, northern Arizona! I know it sounds odd, but trust me on this one. And up on the Mogollon rim the scenery is just as fine.

Done the unguided for both on foot in Northern NM
Meat in the freezer every time

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Did that in the mountains east of Monterrey back in the day. Yup, meat in the freezer. But getting the tag these days is just impossible. Some SOB must have squealed about the hunt. Gorgeous country. Valley quail in flocks of dozens, so many bandtail pigeons they darkened the sky . . . Wonderful.

 

[DesertPirate]

Southern NM, Gamble's Quail and White wing dove

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Southern NM, Gamble's Quail and White wing dove

Wanna come to Bolivia? Two days of hot barrel dove shooting followed by three of peacock bass. Hoot mon!

 

[Weird Harold]

You wouldn't settle for a 30 footer?

Nope, need that extra ten feet for the garage in the back for the get-around-the-trailer-park golf-cart.

 

[DesertPirate]

Wanna come to Bolivia? Two days of hot barrel dove shooting followed by three of peacock bass. Hoot mon!

Do that one if I had the coin
That sounds like great times

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Do that one if I had the coin
That sounds like great times

Start saving. It's probably in '10.