Bag Night Challenge 2014

[IntrepidXJ]

Total: 18 Nights

January 31 - February 2 | Stateline | 2 Nights
March 14-16 | Johns Canyon & Butler Wash | 2 Nights
March 29-30 | The Wedge | 1 Night
April 18-19 | No Thoroughfare Canyon | 1 Night
April 30 - May 4 | Salt Creek Canyon | 4 Nights
May 11-14 | Montezuma Canyon & The San Juan River | 3 Nights
May 23-26 | High Spur, Millard Canyon & Maze Overlook | 3 Nights
June 7-8 | Black Canyon of the Gunnison | 1 Night
June 21-22 | Ouray Amphitheater | 1 Night

 

[blueeyes]

Camping and mountain biking again. So good to get out.

Targhee National Forest - 2 nights
Table Rock group site Targhee National Forest - 1 night

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[pstm13]

3 nights Glacier NP
1 night Flathead Lake MT

Running Total 11 nights

 

[Yvonne]

Total: 30 nights

1/17 - 1/20 : Goosenecks SP, Valley of the Gods, Natural Bridges NM | 3 nights|
2/14 - 2/15: Yant Flats area with sixstringsteve |1 night|
2/22 -2/23 : Little Finland with pixie1339 |1 night|
3/8 -3/9: Wedge Overlook, Swell |1 night|
3/9-3/10: Goblin Valley |1 night|
3/10-3/12: Arches |2 nights|
3/13 - 3/16: The Maze, Canyonlands NP with sixstringsteve and @Tess | 3 nights|
4/11 -4/12: |1 night| Monument Valley during a school field trip ( never camp at Gouldings, it's awful)
4/18-4/20: | Bluejohn Canyon with sixstringsteve and Tess |3 nights|
5/21-5/22: Valley of the Gods | 1 night |
5/22-5/25: Grand Gulch with pixie1339 | 3 nights|
5/25 - 5/26: Old Sheffield Road near Escalante | 1 night|
6/2-6/3 : San Rafael Swell with sixstringsteve | 1 night|
6/5-6/9: Great Basin NP with sixstringsteve , Tess and Mike K | 4 nights |
6/18-6/22 : Escalante Area & Coyote Gulch with sixstringsteve ,Tess , jentzschman , Corinne Nyman | 4 nights|

 

[steve]

Total: 30 nights

1 night - Jan 2 @ Diamond Fork Hot Springs with Tess
1 night - Jan 18 @ Vally of the Gods with Tess and Miss Buffalo
1 night - Feb 7 @ Boulter Peak (outside Eureka)
2 nights - Feb 13-14 @ Yant Flats with Miss Buffalo
1 night - March 7 @ The Wedge Overlook
4 nights - March 12-16 @ the Maze with Tess and Miss Buffalo
1 night - March 29 @ SRS Lone Warrior Campsite
1 night - April 2 @ backyard testing gear with Tess
1 night - April 5 @ Alpine with Tess
1 night - April 11 @ Torrey, UT
3 nights - April 16-19 Bluejohn Canyon with Tess, jentzschman , and Miss Buffalo
2 nights - May 2-3 Zion NP, Kolob with pixie1339, Tess, and Laura
3 nights - May 7-10 Labyrinth Canyon with Tess
1 night - May 23 AF Canyon with Tess
1 night - May 30 Secret Spot with Tess, taking my mom backpacking for the first time in her life. I think she's hooked.
1 night - June 2 Swell Float Trip with Miss Buffalo
2 nights - June 5-7 Great Basin NP with Miss Buffalo, Mike K, and Tess
3 nights - June 19-22 Coyote Gulch with Miss Buffalo, jentzschman and Tess

 

[SirDonB]

June 27-29 (2 nights) Backcounry camping in Pittstown State Forest. I will be taking pictures of the camp stetup and will post them here once I get back. This will be my first real camping trip in a good number of years.

 

[pstm13]

GTNP 1 night

Running total: 12 nights

 

[DAA]

Week long family vacation in Yellowstone. Loved it.

Total 35 nights.

Owyhee Desert, Jan. - 2 nights
San Rafael Desert, Feb. - 2 nights
Henry Mtns/Capitol Reef, Mar. - 4 nights
Maze/Poison Spr., Mar. - 4 nights
The Swell, Mar. - 2 nights
Polly Mesa, Apr. - 3 nights
Antelope Island, Apr. - 2 nights
Salt Creek, May - 4 nights
West Desert, May - 2 nights
Clover Mtns Nevada, May - 1 night
Deep Creek Mtns, June - 3 nights
YNP, June - 6 nights

- DAA

 

[andyjaggy]

So jealous of all of you. I have yet to spend a single night out this year, but that's about to change real soon. We should start a trail miles challenge as well.

 

[Nick]

So jealous of all of you. I have yet to spend a single night out this year, but that's about to change real soon. We should start a trail miles challenge as well.

I believe we did! @sixstringsteve started it, I don't recall what the thread was called.

 

[andyjaggy]

I'll see if I can find it. It's hard with small kids for me to find opportunities to spend lots of nights away, but I do go hiking several times a week.

 

[Nick]

Week long family vacation in Yellowstone. Loved it.

Total 35 nights.

At that rate you're going to hit like 80 this year!

 

[steve]

I'll see if I can find it. It's hard with small kids for me to find opportunities to spend lots of nights away, but I do go hiking several times a week.

Here you go.

http://backcountrypost.com/forum/threads/the-human-powered-odometer-2014.2780/#post-32283

 

[DAA]

At that rate you're going to hit like 80 this year!

I averaged about 70 a year for a lot of years. While the kids were younger I cut way back. Now that they are getting older, I'm starting to get out a little bit more again. But I don't see even 70 ever happening again, let alone 80!

Probably sputter out and barely crack 50 this year .

- DAA

 

[Yvonne]

I have to try and get my 60 nights this year. Not sure if it will happen, but August will be a busy camping month.
At least I want to have one camp night each month this year

 

[steve]

I'd like to hit 50 this year, but my life is starting to get a little too out of balance with all this camping. I'm 3 videos behind, my lawn doesn't get mowed much, and my sleeping bag spends more time in my pack than hanging in the closet. 1st world problems I suppose.

 

[SirDonB]

I'll see if I can find it. It's hard with small kids for me to find opportunities to spend lots of nights away, but I do go hiking several times a week.

I feel your pain, I have 5 kids ranging from 4-15... not everyone wants camp or do some of the outdoor activities I like to do, so I spend most nights sleeping in my bed dreaming of being able to get out more. I do however get out several nights after work to go geocaching right around the midnight hour...

 

[andyjaggy]

I'd like to hit 50 this year, but my life is starting to get a little too out of balance with all this camping. I'm 3 videos behind, my lawn doesn't get mowed much, and my sleeping bag spends more time in my pack than hanging in the closet. 1st world problems I suppose.

Sounds like you have a pretty good balance going on to me. Green mowed lawns are overrated anyway.

 

[andyjaggy]

I feel your pain, I have 5 kids ranging from 4-15... not everyone wants camp or do some of the outdoor activities I like to do, so I spend most nights sleeping in my bed dreaming of being able to get out more. I do however get out several nights after work to go geocaching right around the midnight hour...

Yeah it's rough. My wife and I have an understanding that I am allowed to run off a fair bit in July - September to do my thing, but I try to not be absent as much through the rest of the year. I also take a solo trip somewhere of my choosing in the fall, this year I am going to hit up Zion for 4 days by myself in October, and next year it will be GTNP, or thinking of hitting up Oregon and doing a waterfall tour for a week. Eventually the kids can come, that will great.

 

[WasatchWill]

I'll see if I can find it. It's hard with small kids for me to find opportunities to spend lots of nights away, but I do go hiking several times a week.

I feel your pain. Though I think I've now got my wife convinced to try and take our kids up to Ruth Lake and/or Wall Lake in mid July to introduce them to backpacking for a night or two and a bit of fishing. Their ages range from 2 to 7, so we'll see how that goes.

So far, I've only got 2 nights at Goblin Valley, 2 nights in my hammock in Torrey and a couple more nights in it in my yard.

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