Bag Night Challenge 2013

Met and exceeded both my goal of 40 bag nights and my goal to hike 400 miles this year. Woot!

41 nights total

3/02: 1 night Yant Flat
3/28-3/31: 3 nights Virgin River Gorge, Valley Of Fire, Little Finland
4/05-4/07: 2 nights Poison Springs Canyon
4/12-4/14: 2 nights Kane Creek Canyon, Lower Onion Creek
4/26-4/28: 2 nights Sunglow Campground
5/02-5/05: 3 nights Meeks Mesa, Egypt, Willow Gulch
5/10-5/12: 2 nights Halls Creek Narrows
5/24-5/28: 4 nights Salt Creek Canyon
6/22-6/23: 1 night Lake Blanche
6/28-6/30: 2 nights Cedar Breaks, Ashdown Gorge
7/04-7/07: 3 nights Grand Teton NP
7/27-8/02: 6 nights Glacier NP
8/08-8/11: 3 nights Big Sandy Lake
8/31-9/02: 2 nights Lower Red Castle Lake
9/14-9/15: 1 night Colorado National Monument
10/05-10/06: 1 night Moab area
10/16-10/19: 3 nights Canyonlands Needles District
 
Just got home from what might be one of the coolest experiences of my life. 4 days floating the Green River through Labyrinth Canyon with @Ndheiner, @gnwatts and @baltocharlie. This was taken at our second campsite on the river just down stream from Keg Spring Canyon.

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Total: 45 Nights

Feb 15 | San Rafael Reef | 1 Night
Mar 2 | Near St. George | 1 Night
Mar 13-17 | Llewellyn & Cottonwood Gulches, Escalante | 4 Nights
Mar 29-31 | Sandthrax | 2 Nights
Apr 11-14 | Halls Creek Narrows | 3 Nights
Apr 25-28 | Escalante | 3 Nights
May 3-5 | Capitol Reef | 2 Nights
May 16-19 | Zion | 3 Nights
June 6-9 | Boulder Creek | 3 Nights
June 15-16 | Cutthroat Lake, Uintas | 1 Night
July 3-7 | Wind Rivers - Big Sandy Area | 4 Nights
July 25-28 | Wind Rivers - Atlantic Canyon | 3 Nights
August 10-16 | Wind Rivers - Green River Lakes to Elkhart Park | 6 Nights
Sept 19-22 | Lake Powell Yakpacking | 3 Nights
Oct 4-6 | A nice little canyon in the desert | 2 Nights
Oct 17-21 | Labyrinth Canyon | 4 Nights
 
2 Nights April Canyonlands
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2 Nights June Canyonlands
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1 Night June Mesa Verde
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1 Night June Colorado National Monument
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1 Night July Sawtooth Lake, ID
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3 Nights July near Driggs, ID
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3 Nights August near Burley, ID
1 Night August Snake River near Swan Valley, ID
1 Night Labor Day Weekend Yellowstone NP
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1 Night September Salmon National Forest, ID
1 Night October Snake River near Swan Valley, ID
2 Nights with my kids in the backyard :)
1 Night November 15th in Blizzard @ Stinking Springs/Snake River
20 Nights and counting...
 
Quick over-nighter out west :). Unseasonably warm night, just set out the cot and the bag and was plenty warm. Did the same thing first night of the Owyhee trip a couple weeks ago and got pretty chilled towards morning. Think it got down into the high teens that night. Don't think it got below 30 night before last though.

Total 46 nights.

White Pine/Elko counties NV, Jan - 2 nights
West Desert, Jan - 1 night
Newfoundland Mtns, Feb - 2 nights
Cedar Mesa, Mar - 3 nights
Starr Springs/Poison Springs, Apr - 4 nights
Cedar Mesa/Grand Gulch, Apr - 4 nights
Wendover to St. George, May - 2 nights
West Desert, May - 1 night
Uintas/Upper Rock Creek, June - 3 nights
Antelope Island, July - 2 nights
Elk Ridge/Beef Basin/North Long Point, Aug - 3 nights
La Sals, Aug - 6 nights
Uintas, Sep - 2 nights
Jarbidge Mtns, Sep - 2 nights
White River (AR), Sep - 4 nights
Antelope Island, Oct - 2 nights
Owyhee Desert, Oct - 2 nights
West Desert, Oct - 1 night

- DAA
 
DAA said:
Quick over-nighter out west :). Unseasonably warm night, just set out the cot and the bag and was plenty warm. Did the same thing first night of the Owyhee trip a couple weeks ago and got pretty chilled towards morning. Think it got down into the high teens that night. Don't think it got below 30 night before last though.

Total 46 nights.
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You're really going to make me work for it this year, aren't you! How many more nights do you have planned? :cautious:
 
Planned... Not many :cry:.

Planning on four or five nights in Nov., weather permitting, and another two or three in Dec., weather permitting. That's about it...

- DAA
 
DAA said:
Planned... Not many :cry:.

Planning on four or five nights in Nov., weather permitting, and another two or three in Dec., weather permitting. That's about it...

- DAA
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Haha! So 6 or 8 more nights in Nov and Dec?! That seems pretty dang good to me! I only have 3-6 more planned so I think you might be the champ once again this year! :)
 
Nick said:
I only have 3-6 more planned so I think you might be the champ once again this year! :)
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You do know that Miss Buffalo is gonna slam dunk us both, right? :twothumbs:

As for me, just have to see what happens. Storms could wreck my plans. For that matter, if my back doesn't start to move in the right direction pretty soon, it could have me sidelined indefinitely... The last two trips have been really hard for me. It's tough just getting in and out of the vehicle. Walking, strangely enough, isn't that bad. But setting up, taking down camp, in and out of the vehicle, stuff like that is just pure agony right now.

- DAA
 
DAA said:
You do know that Miss Buffalo is gonna slam dunk us both, right? :twothumbs:
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:D:D:D





I just wait until my semester is over mid December and start my camping and photography trip.
I have almost 3 weeks off, that means a lot of camp nights will come.
I'm stomping with my feet and can't wait.

I will get you then :p
Next trip will be somewhere over Thanksgiving ...

My goal is 50 nights and I'm getting close to my goal.
I will also break my goal of 500 hiking miles. So far I have 474 miles :frantic:
Too bad I can't go each week due to school work.
 
Back from a few days in and around Zion. Beautiful down there right now...

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Total: 48 Nights

Feb 15 | San Rafael Reef | 1 Night
Mar 2 | Near St. George | 1 Night
Mar 13-17 | Llewellyn & Cottonwood Gulches, Escalante | 4 Nights
Mar 29-31 | Sandthrax | 2 Nights
Apr 11-14 | Halls Creek Narrows | 3 Nights
Apr 25-28 | Escalante | 3 Nights
May 3-5 | Capitol Reef | 2 Nights
May 16-19 | Zion | 3 Nights
June 6-9 | Boulder Creek | 3 Nights
June 15-16 | Cutthroat Lake, Uintas | 1 Night
July 3-7 | Wind Rivers - Big Sandy Area | 4 Nights
July 25-28 | Wind Rivers - Atlantic Canyon | 3 Nights
August 10-16 | Wind Rivers - Green River Lakes to Elkhart Park | 6 Nights
Sept 19-22 | Lake Powell Yakpacking | 3 Nights
Oct 4-6 | A nice little canyon in the desert | 2 Nights
Oct 17-21 | Labyrinth Canyon | 4 Nights
Oct 31-Nov 3 | Around Zion | 3 Nights
 
43 nights total

3/02: 1 night Yant Flat
3/28-3/31: 3 nights Virgin River Gorge, Valley Of Fire, Little Finland
4/05-4/07: 2 nights Poison Springs Canyon
4/12-4/14: 2 nights Kane Creek Canyon, Lower Onion Creek
4/26-4/28: 2 nights Sunglow Campground
5/02-5/05: 3 nights Meeks Mesa, Egypt, Willow Gulch
5/10-5/12: 2 nights Halls Creek Narrows
5/24-5/28: 4 nights Salt Creek Canyon
6/22-6/23: 1 night Lake Blanche
6/28-6/30: 2 nights Cedar Breaks, Ashdown Gorge
7/04-7/07: 3 nights Grand Teton NP
7/27-8/02: 6 nights Glacier NP
8/08-8/11: 3 nights Big Sandy Lake
8/31-9/02: 2 nights Lower Red Castle Lake
9/14-9/15: 1 night Colorado National Monument
10/05-10/06: 1 night Moab area
10/16-10/19: 3 nights Canyonlands Needles District
11/01-11/03: 2 nights Zion NP

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Total 20 Nights

3/15 Backyard
4/5-4/7 Little Creek Mesa
4/19 Gooseberry Mesa
4/27 Zion South Campground
5/3 Eagle Crags Mesa
5/9-5/11 The White Rim
5/25-5/27 Kolob Reservoir
6/22-6/23 The Narrows
7/29-7/30 Ashdown Gorge
7/13-7/15 Te-Ah campground
8/2-8/4 Brian Head
9/21-9/22 Virgin, UT
11/1-11/3 25 hours of Frog Hollow mountain bike race Virgin, UT

That probably wraps up my camping for the year unless I make it out during the break between semesters.


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