Bag Night Challenge 2018

Total: 15 nights

May 25 | Kens Lake- Moab | 1 night
June 2 | Booker Lake- Uintas | 1 night
June 8-9 | Teal Lake- Uintas | 2 nights
June 23 | Cuberant Basin- Uintas | 1 night
June 29-30 | Ryder Lake- High Uintas Wilderness | 2 nights
July 6-7 | Elizabeth Mountain Area- Uintas | 2 nights
July 27-28 | Hell Hole Lake- High Uintas Wilderness | 2 nights
August 18 | Shadow Lake- Uintas | 1 night
August 24-25 | Allsop Lake- High Uintas Wilderness | 2 nights
September 2 | Dean Lake- Uinta Mountains | 1 night

Took a gamble and it payed off! Having Dean Lake all to myself on a holiday weekend was a treat! The stars were amazing out there! Fun little solo overnighter!

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LarryBoy said:
Alright, here goes. I think this one needs a disclaimer. While most of the excluded nights below were in fact spent in my sleeping bag, I dont count them if they were spent in a climate controlled building and/or one designed for human habitation. So nights spent in a hotel or church basement don't count, but those spent in a cinderblock laundromat or trailhead privy do count.

March 8-September 4 is 180 days. I spent all of those as bag nights except the following 28 nights:

Greyhound 22 hour nightmare (no sleeping): 1
Lordsburg NM: 1
Lordsburg NM (2nd time): 1
Silver City NM: 2
Pie Town NM: 1
Grants NM: 1
Chama NM: 2
Pagosa Springs CO: 3
Lake City CO: 3
Salida CO: 2
Silverthorne CO: 3
Grand Lake CO: 2
Rawlins WY: 1
Pinedale WY: 1
Dubois WY: 1
Lima MT: 1
Leadore MT: 1
Darby MT: 1

January 12-15 | Slickhorn Loop, Bears Ears National Monument | 3 Nights
January 15-16 | Random camping outside Mexican Hat | 1 Night
March 8-September 4 | Hayduke sections 10-14 and CDT | 152 nights

Total: 156 nights

I'm too dumb to figure out how to upload photos from my phone so I'll post a picture a bit later.
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One hundred and fifty six! Whoa, that puts you firmly in the pro-hiker bag night category that Nick invented last year. Good thing, for me. I can't compete.
 
I am catching you guys!

2018 - 29 Nights

2 - Walked my loop from Squaw Flat in the Needles District CNP 2/2
1 - Uintas MLH 4/1
2 - Silver Reef in Dixie 4/6
3 - Escalante backpacking with @Nick, @neiloro and @Jen 4/19
2 - White Horse Mountains, eastern Nevada 5/4
2 - Cliff Dweller Flat in the San Rafael Swell - 5/18
2 - Boulder Mountain and Pleasant Creek @Michael and Heike - 6/8
2 - Wasatch wilderness camp checking out the new wheeled-tent - 6/29
4 - Sawtooth Wilderness loop backpack with @lostlandscapes, @AustinCronnelly and Don 7/6
1 - Uintas backpack to Teal Lake 7/28
4 - Yellowstone backpack and Electric Peak summit with @scatman and others 8/9
1 - Wasatch wilderness camp again - 8/18
3 - Wind Rivers backpack to Lester Peak - 8/31

Camp at Tommy Lake w/Mt. Lester in the background
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Nick said:
Absolutely loving it. Crazy that we're on day 8 now living and working out of it and it's still very comfortable. I've been telecommuting here and there and it's a nice mobile office.
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Mobile life at its best :)


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Artemus said:
That I can believe. Can you publish the smell in a TR?
Props on the CDT, mister!
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Scratch and sniff computer monitors perhaps? I don't even know where to start on a trip report for a trip this big. A blow by blow account is on my blog, which I try not to plug too much here because cross posting often comes off as annoying and self serving. Click on my name and the link is in my profile.
 
Major respect for doing the CDT. I'll plug your blog - just looked at the first one, will go back and read more, an easy name to remember - LOL

http://prettyeasytoremember.blogspot.com

ETA: a great blog, here's a sample, fun reading (@LarryBoy hope you don't mind my quoting this, if you do, let me know and I'll delete it, but you're a great writer, and the photos are good, too):

The Hollow Leg: While my attitude is still upbeat, my body is definitely feeling the effects of nearly 5 months on trail. Around Pinedale, my appetite went bananas. Suddenly those 5-day resupplies I had sent myself were only good for 3 days. I actually ran out of food coming into Leadore and was so hungry that I drank all my water flavoring packets - 5 calories each - just because they were something. I can eat my fill, and be ravenously hungry two hours later. I've had to spend additional time in town in Idaho and Montana, just trying to lessen the calorie deficit I'm running. In Lima, MT, I ate three huge meals in town and left fully fueled. And that day, I cruised up and down a very steep ridgeline. By contrast, two days later, I slogged. The terrain was easier, but energy-wise, I was simply running on empty. I simply cannot eat enough in a day to account for all the energy I'm burning right now.

Flyrannosaurus Rex: As previously mentioned, the mosquitoes were horrendous in the Winds. Since then, they've gradually gotten better. Unfortunately though, they've been replaced by the Flesh-Eating Flies. These horseflies are about an inch long, make an ominous buzzing sound like that of a wasp, and draw blood when they bite. And when you kill them, they leave a disgusting yellow slimelike blood substance on you. They're pretty annoying, and their bite is pretty painful, but they're still better than the mosquitoes. Good riddance to those guys!

Walking the Backbone: One of the highlights of southern Montana has been the routing of the CDT. For the most part, the trail has stayed right on the Divide itself. Oftentimes, my right foot is in Montana and my left foot is in Idaho. And while that means constant ups and downs (probably the consistently steepest part of the trail thus far, even moreso than Colorado), it's also meant great views, wonderful fields of wildflowers, and a top-of-the-world feeling. I must give this section of trail surprisingly high marks.
 
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TOTAL: 21 nights

6/28 - 6/30: | Uintas | 2 nights
7/19 - 7/24: | Wind River Range ( Elkhart TH, Hobbs and Island Lake) with @pixie1339 | 5 nights
7/28 -7/29: | La Verkin Creek, Zion | 1 night
8/14- 8/19: |Lake Powell | 5 nights
8/22 - 8/26: | Bryce Canyon | 4 nights
8/29 - 8/30: | Yants Flats | 1 night
9/4 - 9/6 : | Dixie National Forest | 2 nights
9/6 - 9/7: | near Island Park, ID | 1 night

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Slowly catching up with that late start this year







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