TR-Guadalupe Mountains NP Backpacking Oct 1986

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One night Seminole Canyon State Park; in Big Bend National Park two nights Cottonwood Campground, one night backpack to NE4, two nights Paint Gap 4 Gear, Lessons learned One characteristic of aging is that you can get great pleasure from revisiting experiences of your youth. Separated by decades, you forget the details of such experiences…
(There is a separate Trip Report for my backpack to the bottom that trip here.) Work in progress… I headed out to Grand Canyon National Park in January of 2011 to camp and do an overnight backpack to the bottom of the canyon. Why January? Well, less crowded. I had overheard a Ranger telling another…
Humphrey Peak Wikipedia In August 2003, on the way to California to my brother’s wedding, I camped near Flagstaff, Arizona and climbed Humphreys Peak, the high point of the state. The hike starts off in the “Snow Bowl”, a ski area, then winds its way up through the forest until it gets to timberline. Then…
Flickr album for this trip is here: This was a little backpacking trip in the Indian Peaks Wilderness area of Colorado. I’d already hiked much of the same area the previous year, that is the area up to and including the summit of South Arapaho Peak from the 4th of July trailhead. I would leave…
I was nine years old and kept thinking “
This is mostly a stub, holding a spot for a more complete trip report later. I don’t have all the photos from that trip digitized yet but am in the process of doing so. After two previous hikes up to the summit of Texas’ highest point, I realized that the spectacular vista from the top…