To Do in 2025

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Time for everyone's favorite annual BCP tradition? What you got on tap for 2025? Dream big!

Got a trip to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness planned? Gonna hike over 250 miles this year? Perhaps 2025 is the year you finally send that annoying boulder problem that's been bugging you for aeons! Whatever you've got planned, shout it out here!


Previous years:

2014: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2014.2671/
2015: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2015.3896/
2016: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2016.5420/
2017: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2017.6450/
2018: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2018.7301/
2019: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2019.8240/
2020: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2020.9026/
2021: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2021.9543/
2022: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2022.10079/
2023: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2023.10571/
2024: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/to-do-in-2024.10994/
 
2025 is starting to come together.

March- Road trip in Colorado to visit colleges with my son (Durango, Grand Junction, Gunnison).
April/May- Headed to Bhutan for a few weeks, planning to explore a bit but the primary focus is the Laya Gasa Trek over 12 days
Summer- Mostly spent at home in Alaska. Send our oldest off to college:(
October- Cedar Mesa?
November- Japan to enjoy the fall colors and to do either the Nakahechi or Nakasendo Way trek (anyone done either?)
 
Hopefully at least one bikepacking trip and one backpacking trip. We'll see what comes together. Hoping to get more miles of cycling in, the past couple years have not been good for time for cycling.
 
Now as for 2025, not certain as of yet, so see what happens. And always try to pass thru and see / experience new country here in the Western US that have not see or experienced. But do know a few things which are:

1.) Lingering here in the Sonoran Desert near Organ Pioe Cactus NM till Mid February.
2.) Go to Wintercount, a Primitive Skills Gathering, near Florence, Az from February 16th to the 22nd.
3.) Migrate north slowly in the spring from Arizona back to Jackson Hole, Wy. Maybe go north on the GDMBR thru New Mexico and Colorado ... possibly. Visit my brother in May in Denver.
4.) It has now been some years, but most probably just go back into the deep wilds of NW Wyoming and live during the summer. If not then bike tour again in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. Possibly see my sister again in Kalispell. And if in Kalispell, do some hiking up in the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex area.
5.) Go to the Rabbitstick Gathering in mid September.
6.) Migrate south, most probably down thru the Rockies and wild country... see what happens, from Jackson Hole Wy to again in the desert near Ajo / Why near Organ Pipe Cactus NM.

Hike, Bike, and Bird!
 
I think this is gonna be the year where I actually do a Bob Marshall trip. Trying not to jinx it by saying it.

Would also really like to head back to the southern Absarokas. Haven't been since 2019.

Annual Bechler area trip also. We're thinking of trying some lesser traveled ways this year to mix things up.

And plenty of other stuff that I come up with along the way!
 
Jackson said:
I think this is gonna be the year where I actually do a Bob Marshall trip. Trying not to jinx it by saying it.

Would also really like to head back to the southern Absarokas. Haven't been since 2019.

Annual Bechler area trip also. We're thinking of trying some lesser traveled ways this year to mix things up.

And plenty of other stuff that I come up with along the way!
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We are planning another killer Scatman Expedition in the S Abarokas.......
 
I'm heading back to Grand Canyon's Tonto Trail in March - South Bass back east to Boucher/Hermits over 7 days.

I have also been kicking around a 5/6 day trip in the SW corner of Colorado's Holy Cross Wilderness that would feature Strawberry Lakes and eventually further north to the Big Pine Lake basin. There's a lot of off-trail finagling that would require pretty perfect conditions to make it happen, but I've spent enough time in the peripheral area to really, really want to get into it more.

And I'm going to attempt a Crescent Lake/High Lake/Sportsman Lake trek in NW Yellowstone again in 2025, too. Had it on the permit books last year before fire/smoke conditions prompted a last minute audible into the Winds, but it's a route I've done in piecemeal before and really want to do in full.
 
Only definite items are
1. Early June - backpack and hikes in Northern NM. Pecos and other wilderness areas. Bisti de Na Zin
2. Late Aug/Sept - 5 weeks in the Winds/NW WY. 5-6 night trips, mostly for fishing. Maybe a pack drop trip and hopefully some goldens.

TBD:
1. Bonds/Pemigewasset Wilderness in NH Whites
2. Grand Canyon of PA
 
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Lots of hopes:

After doing the Camino Primitive in Spain in 2023, my daughter and I are looking at the Lycian Way in Turkey in 2025.

I'll also do a few weeks of trail crew work ..first one planned in the Mokelumne Wilderness, but there will be more days and weeks of that.

And I have hopes of doing either the Tehepite Valley or the old Emigrant trail near Sonora Pass, depending on who wants to join me and what they want to do.
 
wick e. pedia said:
I have also been kicking around a 5/6 day trip in the SW corner of Colorado's Holy Cross Wilderness that would feature Strawberry Lakes and eventually further north to the Big Pine Lake basin. There's a lot of off-trail finagling that would require pretty perfect conditions to make it happen, but I've spent enough time in the peripheral area to really, really want to get into it more.
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I'm intrigued about this. PM sent.
 
balzaccom said:
Lots of hopes:

After doing the Camino Primitive in Spain in 2023, my daughter and I are looking at the Lycian Way in Turkey in 2025.

I'll also do a few weeks of trail crew work ..first one planned in the Mokelumne Wilderness, but there will be more days and weeks of that.

And I have hopes of doing either the Tehepite Valley or the old Emigrant trail near Sonora Pass, depending on who wants to join me and what they want to do.
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Amy and I did the Lycean Way as part of an extended set of walks in Turkey a number of years ago. Trip report at: https://doingmiles.com/2011-04-turkey-lycian-way/

Happy to try to answer any questions you may have.

James
 
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Kmatjhwy said:
Now as for 2025, not certain as of yet, so see what happens. And always try to pass thru and see / experience new country here in the Western US that have not see or experienced. But do know a few things which are:

1.) Lingering here in the Sonoran Desert near Organ Pioe Cactus NM till Mid February.
2.) Go to Wintercount, a Primitive Skills Gathering, near Florence, Az from February 16th to the 22nd.
3.) Migrate north slowly in the spring from Arizona back to Jackson Hole, Wy. Maybe go north on the GDMBR thru New Mexico and Colorado ... possibly. Visit my brother in May in Denver.
4.) It has now been some years, but most probably just go back into the deep wilds of NW Wyoming and live during the summer. If not then bike tour again in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. Possibly see my sister again in Kalispell. And if in Kalispell, do some hiking up in the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex area.
5.) Go to the Rabbitstick Gathering in mid September.
6.) Migrate south, most probably down thru the Rockies and wild country... see what happens, from Jackson Hole Wy to again in the desert near Ajo / Why near Organ Pipe Cactus NM.

Hike, Bike, and Bird!
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Do you have a campervan that you base yourself out of?
 
Some cool sounding trips listed here!

All that I have plans for are the following....

Complete a remote section of the El Camino Real in Baja(finally, I hope!!!).
Northern Traverse of Glacier with the kids.
Recreate the last walk of the YUBA COUNTY 5 under almost the same exact condition as they did in 1978. Only 4 of the 5 bodies were found the following summer and 1 has never been found.
At least one other trip that is TBD.
 
SE Alpine, No I do Not have a campervan. I do Not even drive! But am now 68, retired, and I live on my old Haro mountain bike with north in the spring and summer, south in the fall and winter. And when am traveling north and south, try to take more of the off the beaten way routes and seeing everything. And when traveling do just take my time for no need to rush. There is still so much to see and experience everywhere here in the western US! Life is Great!
 
First time in a number of years that I don't anticipate doing a named long-distance hike. Still plenty of great adventures in store, hopefully!

Day adventures:

Climb a fourteener
After-work XC ski - 3x
Flat Tops day hike or backpacking trip
Ouray Perimeter Trail

Backpacking:

Week-long Uintas trip
SE Utah trip with friends
At least one overnight packrafting trip
A section of the Colorado Trail
Raggeds Wilderness trip

Car Camping:

SE Utah trip with friends

Random goals:

Swim in a lake above 12k
 
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