Bag Night Challenge 2017

IntrepidXJ · Dec 3, 2017

Artemus · Dec 3, 2017

IntrepidXJ said:
So I lied....with the warmer temperatures sticking around, I spent Friday night just outside of the Needles. Now I think I'm done for the year!

Total: 47 Nights

March 8-9 | Eureka Dunes | 1 Night
March 9-10 | Panamint Valley | 1 Night
March 10-11 | Afton Canyon | 1 Night
March 11-12 | Lava Beds | 1 Night
March 16-17 | White Sands National Monument | 1 Night
March 31 - April 1 | San Rafael River | 1 Night
April 22-23 | Jones Hole | 1 Night
April 29-30 | Sid and Charley | 1 Night
May 13-14 | Cathedral Valley | 1 Night
May 26-29 | The Orange Cliffs | 3 Nights
June 2-3 | Storm King Mountain | 1 Night
June 3-4 | The Great Sand Dunes* / Carnero Creek | 1 Night
June 9-11 | Bears Ears National Monument | 2 Nights
June 16-17 | Butler Wash | 1 Night
June 17-19 | San Juan River | 2 Nights
June 30 - July 1 | Santaquin Meadows | 1 Night
July 8-9 | South Fork Mineral Creek | 1 Night
July 15-16 | Little Cimarron River | 1 Night
July 22-23 | Wager Gulch | 1 Night
July 28-29 | Cielo Vista Ranch | 1 Night
July 29-30 | Wheeler Geologic Area | 1 Night
August 5-6 | North Fork Clear Creek | 1 Night
August 11-13 | Burrows Creek & Lone Cone | 2 Nights
August 17-21 | Wind Rivers | 4 Nights
August 25-26 | Marshall Pass | 1 Night
September 2-4 | Uncompahgre Wilderness | 2 Nights
September 8-9 | Henson Creek | 1 Night
September 29 - October 5 | Bears Ears | 6 Nights
November 9-13 | Arizona Strip | 4 Nights
December 1-2 | Indian Creek | 1 Night

This seals it. One more than me, I have to get back out again!

blueeyes · Dec 3, 2017

Artemus said:
This seals it. One more than me, I have to get back out again!

Do it! Hahaha

I love this thread. It inspires me. I need to do better at getting outside.

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Artemus · Dec 3, 2017

blueeyes said:
Do it! Hahaha

I love this thread. It inspires me. I need to do better at getting outside.

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Unfortunately, we are under a winter storm. An inch of fresh already. Could take the wind out of your sales, if you let it.

Scott Chandler · Dec 3, 2017

Just have to head south! Looks like it will get chilly, but precip seems to be leaving this area alone...

blueeyes · Dec 3, 2017

Artemus said:
Unfortunately, we are under a winter storm. An inch of fresh already. Could take the wind out of your sales, if you let it.

I know I have it in my backyard too tonight. But... my friends are crazy enough to want to go next weekend and I am even crazier for being willing to go. My tent has been repaired and returned, snow or no snow I am in for squeaking one more night under the stars before this year ends.

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slc_dan · Dec 3, 2017

Don't let @Artemus fool you. He'll get 8+ more nights between the holidays. He has a mini camper for a reason

Artemus · Dec 3, 2017

slc_dan said:
Don't let @Artemus fool you. He'll get 8+ more nights between the holidays. He has a mini camper for a reason

Ah geez, Underscore, don't spill the beans - I am having a hard enough time stretching for the podium as it is. Don't rile 'em up!

Bob · Dec 4, 2017

Mini camper ....... Basically a house. At least mine in fire camp was a one man tent. No heater, water in bottle. Put clothes on horizontal. What soft camping.

I think your getting old Art.

John Morrow · Dec 6, 2017

John Morrow said:
Total: 61 Nights

Zion, South Campground. Nights of Nov 8 to Nov 11

Valley of Fire, Atlatl Campground. Nights of Nov 12 and Nov 13

Red Rocks NCA Campground. Nights of Nov 14 and 15

Boulder Campground, Lake Mead NRA. Nights of Nov 16 and Nov 17

Corn Creek, Desert National Wildlife Refuge. Nights of Nov 18 and 19

Total : 68 Nights
Corn Creek, DNWR. Night of Nov 20
Kraft Mountain Loop hike, RRCNCA
Link: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8026142

Mojave National Preserve, Hole in the Wall Campground. Nights of Nov 21 and 22
Barber Loop. H in the W. Kessler Peak. Table Top Twin Buttes Loop.
Link: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8026147

Death Valley National Park, Greenwater Valley. Nights of Nov 24 and 25
Link: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1114340
In Greenwater Canyon

DVNP, Texas Springs Campground. Nights of Nov 26 and 27

Red Wall Canyon, Corkscrew-20 Mule Team Canyons Loop, Daylight Peak, Coffin Mountain, Kit Fox Hills

Artemus · Dec 6, 2017

Bob said:
Mini camper ....... Basically a house. At least mine in fire camp was a one man tent. No heater, water in bottle. Put clothes on horizontal. What soft camping.

I think your getting old Art.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I seem to remember you sleeping in your truck :disagree:

Doesn't matter, you can sleep in your truck or wherever you want. It is a state of mind thing...

BTW where are your pics of your camp spots?

Artemus · Dec 6, 2017

John Morrow said:
Total : 68 Nights
Corn Creek, DNWR. Night of Nov 20
Kraft Mountain Loop hike, RRCNCA
Link: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8026142

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Mojave National Preserve, Hole in the Wall Campground. Nights of Nov 21 and 22
Barber Loop. H in the W. Kessler Peak. Table Top Twin Buttes Loop.
Link: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8026147

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Death Valley National Park, Greenwater Valley. Nights of Nov 24 and 25
Link: http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1114340
In Greenwater Canyon

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DVNP, Texas Springs Campground. Nights of Nov 26 and 27

Red Wall Canyon, Corkscrew-20 Mule Team Canyons Loop, Daylight Peak, Coffin Mountain, Kit Fox Hills

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What location is that last one, John. The beautiful marble hallway...?

Bob · Dec 6, 2017

Artemus said:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I seem to remember you sleeping in your truck

Doesn't matter, you can sleep in your truck or wherever you want. It is a state of mind thing...

BTW where are your pics of your camp spots?

In my truck was sleeping bag on pad in the back of the truck....NO camper shell or roof over me .....just Stars...... Hehe, try again. I'll load pics when in ogden

John Morrow · Dec 7, 2017

Artemus said:
What location is that last one, John. The beautiful marble hallway...?

Artemus, it is Red Wall Canyon in theGrapevine Mountains of Death Valley National Park. NPS has info on it at the Visitor Center. If you check my TR link I have maps attached. I really love the polished metamorphic rock of the narrows in Death Valley Canyons. They aren't exactly slots but there are some shallow slots in other parts of Death Valley in a rock more like tuff.
John

Nick · Dec 11, 2017

2017 Total YTD: 35 Nights

Dec 30-Jan 2 > Bears Ears National Monument > 1 Night (in 2017)
Feb 3-5 > St. George boat cleaning trip > 2 Nights
Feb 10-12 > Colton Guard Station, Uintas > 2 Nights
Mar 10-11 > Hurricane Cliffs > 1 Night
Apr 21-24 > The Colorado River in Glen Canyon > 3 Nights
May 31-June 4 > Davis Gulch via Lake Powell > 4 Nights
June 16-22 > Yampa River > 6 Nights
July 5-9 > Lake Powell - Escalante > 4 Nights
August 14-20 > Desolation Canyon > 6 Nights
November 9-12 > Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument > 3 Nights
December 7-10 > Bears Ears National Monument > 3 Nights

All the hoopla about the monuments gave me an itch so we spent a few days exploring what I still call Bears Ears. It was GOOD.

Scott Chandler · Dec 14, 2017

Couple more while things stay toasty!

Total: 36

2.13-15: Cono Rojo Campsite, El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biophere Reserve, MEXICO
2.21: Ironwood Forest National Monument, AZ
4.20: Strike Valley near Capital Reef NP
4.21: Hurricane Wash Trailhead, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
4.22: Coyote Gulch, GSENM
5.24: Valley of the Gods
5.28: Dead Horse Point State Park
6.6-7: Mesa Verde National Park, CO
6.18: Dead Horse Point State Park
6.21: Uncompahgre Plateau, CO
7.4: Forsyth Reservoir
7.5: Raft Lake, Boulder Mountain
7.11-12: Island Lake, High Uinta Wilderness
8.1-2: Upper Blue Lake Basin, Mt Sneffels Wilderness, CO
8.15-16: Nellie Creek Basin, Uncompahgre Wilderness, CO
9.13-15: North Fork Road/Zion Ponderosa Resort
9.16: Richfield Walmart Parking Lot
9.20-23: Purgatory Sky Resort, CO area
9.25-29: Dead Horse Point State Park
10.17-19: Canyonlands NP, Salt/Horse At Large Area
11.8: Comb Ridge
12.12-14: Bears Ears NM (none of that shrunken nonsense)

Artemus · Dec 14, 2017

Total Nights - 48

2 - Leeds/Pine Valley Mountains with @Nick and @Smokey - Feb
3 - No Man's Canyon, Dirty Devil - March
2 - Dark Canyon Primitive Area - April
2 - West Desert, Tule Valley Hardpan - April
2 - San Rafael Swell - WSA remediation effort - April
2 - Escalante/Phipps Arch with @Michael - May
2 - Uintas - Pine Valley off the Mirror Lake Highway - May
1 - Muddy Creek float - w/Allen and @Dave - May
1 - City of Rocks climbing trip - June
3- Uintas - Circumnavigation of Leidy Peak - June
5 - Wind Rivers - Circumambulation of Mt/Victor via Europe Canyon with @slc_dan and @NateGeesaman and Mya - August
7 - Eclipse Meetup at Union Pass in the Wind River Mountains - August
1 - Meadow Lake, Uintas - September
4 - Loon Lake and Union Falls, Jellystone - September
2 - San Rafael Swell - rehabilitation service project - September
2 - BMT/Death Hollow solo - October
2 - Goshute mountain camp - October
3 - Thanksgiving camp on Burr Trail - November/Thanksgiving
2 - Canyon Mountains - December

View from the ridge in the Canyon Mountains - a new place for me. Yuba lake in the distance looking east. Thanks for the Beta, @Udink!

Tipi Walter · Dec 15, 2017

Okay, I'm done for the year with a final count of 164 days after a recent 17 day trip in December. Trip pics here---

https://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpack-2017-Trips-79/17-Day-Quest-for-a-White-Christmas/

In the TN mountains of Citico wilderness.

A very pretty spot on Slickrock Creek at Crossing #8 by the Nichols Cove trail jct. See---
https://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpack-2017-Trips-79/17-Day-Quest-for-a-White-Christmas/i-M4rK66t

The start of 7 days of snow and cold---atop Hangover Mt in NC in Slickrock wilderness.

Backpacking buddy Eddie preparing to shove off Hangover Mt.

Climbing over Haoe Peak with Eddie and Hoppin John on right. See---

https://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpack-2017-Trips-79/17-Day-Quest-for-a-White-Christmas/i-qht23gw

Preparing to leave Citico wilderness and the Jeffrey Hell trail on Day 17. See---

https://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backpack-2017-Trips-79/17-Day-Quest-for-a-White-Christmas/i-V4nvcgX

Artemus · Dec 15, 2017

Dang @Tipi Walter, you've got the life!

Here is an update to the race to the ground in a sleeping bag, or equivalent. I stretched it to 6 places in order to see myself.

1) 164 Tipi Walter, obviously he is not afraid of a little snow. That doesn't leave a lot of nights to shower.
2) 68 John Morrow, reported in and rose right onto the podium
3) 52 George_Washington_Hayduke, probably out sand-bagging
4) 51 Bob, although we are still giving him a pass even though he provided no evidence
5) 48 Artemus, and coming on
6) 47 IntrepidXJ, done for the year, yeah right. Randy seems to have bumped up his game with a new camping companion

We are coming down to the wire. Get out, people!

Rockskipper · Dec 15, 2017

@Tipi Walter
Only 164???? LOL

Hey, Art, my count will be 365 at the end of the year. Does it matter that it was mostly indoors (I always sleep in my bag)? :sleepy2:

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