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The year is done. What have you done? Just like previous years, post up your favorite memories of 2019!
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2019 was a wild ride for me in so many ways. I've been the least active here on BCP than ever before, but I've still been busy exploring. Here's a handful of my favorite things from 2019.
I rafted through Saguaro forests and camped further south than I've ever been.
![85791 85791](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85808-e091c91a7c87bf99ec28f9d72be002d9.jpg)
I almost flipped my boat in a former class 6 rapid, and then again in a class 4 right below it, and then stumbled into one of the best campsites I've ever slept at.
![85792 85792](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85809-07e3d19056f90b8e5ac892e404dcb233.jpg)
I didn't backpack for the first time in at least a decade, but the 'boatpacking' filled the gap just fine.
![85793 85793](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85810-38c518c12975c7c260e33ecdfde2b4f4.jpg)
I parked my truck and slept at places I'd been dreaming of seeing for years.
![85794 85794](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85811-a3f49de7183903a4d2909beeb1e8002a.jpg)
I packed everything into bags and took planes, boats, rafts, packrafts, ATV's, shuttles and bush planes deep into the Canadian and Alaskan Wilderness to the furthest north and west places I've ever camped. Sage tried to sneak in there, but it didn't work.
![85795 85795](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85812-f1312f79769f1b0fb66d88c8485bc708.jpg)
I packrafted into glaciers with good friends.
![85796 85796](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85813-6379212a852f86d70ecfa1191c631208.jpg)
![85797 85797](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85814-97499130f8430ba7a9ce63bb7ad55c11.jpg)
I turned 40 in the middle of nowhere, after rowing the hardest whitewater of my life. I watched a massive grizzly swim across a half mile wide raging river and crawl into the trees next to our camp soon after eating this wonderful dutch oven cake made by my friends. #DesertRat
![85798 85798](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85815-aec5471e01626f6b9a233deae4efa725.jpg)
I sipped whisky off of thousand year old ice cubes. To get them, I hiked through a mile and a half of thick alders in dense grizzly country, then stripped down, swam into a lake full of icebergs, wrangled one the size of a small car, then straddled it in my boxer shorts and bludgeoned it with a rock to fill my backpack full of ice.
![85800 85800](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85817-649ac15ad149c1b50d5ecd522c6bb54c.jpg)
![85799 85799](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85816-8c044bf972aa3fb11c35fe410bde1714.jpg)
I watched icebergs the size of shopping malls fall to pieces, sending out tidal waves for miles. We spent a day exploring them on packrafts.
![85801 85801](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85818-522bd1956a56053c5c25e28477a68534.jpg)
The next day we rafted to the ocean and loaded our gear into bush planes on a dirt air strip in the middle of nowhere.
![85802 85802](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85819-30021e1fb58aefbdc8036c96030d2ee6.jpg)
I spent some quality time with family on a really fancy boat in the desert.![85803 85803](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85820-82b60588e714f09f88defeed364e30b0.jpg)
We got to see Mesa Verde National Park like few people ever do.
![85804 85804](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85821-d612f3c83b1b2baaaa97e908a657770b.jpg)
We finally did some exploring the San Juans, pushing my camping boundaries just a little further east then ever before.![85805 85805](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85822-16befc14779590ac92a6b9751623aecc.jpg)
I got to see Gates of Lodore in prime fall color.
![85806 85806](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85823-54fa7e0ee51b76d856cd671534425d6c.jpg)
I revisited some old favorites and introduced some friends to them.
![85807 85807](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85824-d17998110caf41110080f02c864e26c6.jpg)
We finished the year camping in new places, seeing new things and reuniting with good friends.
![IMG_2551 2.jpeg IMG_2551 2.jpeg](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85825-23ee05f135aed29c391655a54930bf44.jpg)
![85810 85810](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85827-095af2671d221d087819e5447563f153.jpg)
There's a lot I would change about 2019, but overall, it was pretty damn good.
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012: best of and best trips threads
2019 was a wild ride for me in so many ways. I've been the least active here on BCP than ever before, but I've still been busy exploring. Here's a handful of my favorite things from 2019.
I rafted through Saguaro forests and camped further south than I've ever been.
![85791 85791](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85808-e091c91a7c87bf99ec28f9d72be002d9.jpg)
I almost flipped my boat in a former class 6 rapid, and then again in a class 4 right below it, and then stumbled into one of the best campsites I've ever slept at.
![85792 85792](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85809-07e3d19056f90b8e5ac892e404dcb233.jpg)
I didn't backpack for the first time in at least a decade, but the 'boatpacking' filled the gap just fine.
![85793 85793](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85810-38c518c12975c7c260e33ecdfde2b4f4.jpg)
I parked my truck and slept at places I'd been dreaming of seeing for years.
![85794 85794](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85811-a3f49de7183903a4d2909beeb1e8002a.jpg)
I packed everything into bags and took planes, boats, rafts, packrafts, ATV's, shuttles and bush planes deep into the Canadian and Alaskan Wilderness to the furthest north and west places I've ever camped. Sage tried to sneak in there, but it didn't work.
![85795 85795](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85812-f1312f79769f1b0fb66d88c8485bc708.jpg)
I packrafted into glaciers with good friends.
![85796 85796](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85813-6379212a852f86d70ecfa1191c631208.jpg)
![85797 85797](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85814-97499130f8430ba7a9ce63bb7ad55c11.jpg)
I turned 40 in the middle of nowhere, after rowing the hardest whitewater of my life. I watched a massive grizzly swim across a half mile wide raging river and crawl into the trees next to our camp soon after eating this wonderful dutch oven cake made by my friends. #DesertRat
![85798 85798](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85815-aec5471e01626f6b9a233deae4efa725.jpg)
I sipped whisky off of thousand year old ice cubes. To get them, I hiked through a mile and a half of thick alders in dense grizzly country, then stripped down, swam into a lake full of icebergs, wrangled one the size of a small car, then straddled it in my boxer shorts and bludgeoned it with a rock to fill my backpack full of ice.
![85800 85800](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85817-649ac15ad149c1b50d5ecd522c6bb54c.jpg)
![85799 85799](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85816-8c044bf972aa3fb11c35fe410bde1714.jpg)
I watched icebergs the size of shopping malls fall to pieces, sending out tidal waves for miles. We spent a day exploring them on packrafts.
![85801 85801](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85818-522bd1956a56053c5c25e28477a68534.jpg)
The next day we rafted to the ocean and loaded our gear into bush planes on a dirt air strip in the middle of nowhere.
![85802 85802](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85819-30021e1fb58aefbdc8036c96030d2ee6.jpg)
I spent some quality time with family on a really fancy boat in the desert.
![85803 85803](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85820-82b60588e714f09f88defeed364e30b0.jpg)
We got to see Mesa Verde National Park like few people ever do.
![85804 85804](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85821-d612f3c83b1b2baaaa97e908a657770b.jpg)
We finally did some exploring the San Juans, pushing my camping boundaries just a little further east then ever before.
![85805 85805](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85822-16befc14779590ac92a6b9751623aecc.jpg)
I got to see Gates of Lodore in prime fall color.
![85806 85806](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85823-54fa7e0ee51b76d856cd671534425d6c.jpg)
I revisited some old favorites and introduced some friends to them.
![85807 85807](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85824-d17998110caf41110080f02c864e26c6.jpg)
We finished the year camping in new places, seeing new things and reuniting with good friends.
![IMG_2551 2.jpeg IMG_2551 2.jpeg](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85825-23ee05f135aed29c391655a54930bf44.jpg)
![85810 85810](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/85/85827-095af2671d221d087819e5447563f153.jpg)
There's a lot I would change about 2019, but overall, it was pretty damn good.