Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2017 - 07:07pm PT
|
New tent just arrived
Looks like something you'll hatch from!
Susan
|
|
limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2017 - 07:18pm PT
|
Tents are aid
|
|
Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2017 - 08:24pm PT
|
Looks like something you'll hatch from!
Aaarghhh. Invasion of the Body Snatchers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
|
|
Inner City
Trad climber
Portland, OR
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2017 - 10:20pm PT
|
Light is right...no tent, tarp only, no stove?
|
|
Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
|
|
|
Aug 31, 2017 - 10:32pm PT
|
Technical climbing, backpacking is not. For me, in the High Sierra, if you need a rope, you're off route.
|
|
Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2017 - 04:05am PT
|
Beautiful pix of the Sierra. In Pennsylvania, this is what we see all the time...
|
|
skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
|
|
Ferns in the understory......not as common out West. Got my first grouse in a heavy understory somewhere near Mt. Lassen as a kid. To my amazement, there was a beautifully ferned understory about waist high in the Sierra San Pedro Martir of Baja. This one is in the Sierra.
|
|
sheepdog
Trad climber
just over the hill
|
|
backpacking and climbing allow me to trade one existence for another. with climbing the transition is immediate, backpacking takes a day or so to settle in.
i'm looking forward to getting back here next week!
|
|
Concerned citizen
Big Wall climber
|
|
In a nutshell, access to magnificent terrain that cannot be comfortably reached by a dayhike.
My/our experience somewhat parallels the original poster, in that our summer holiday destination for many decades had been Yosemite for big wall climbs and dayhikes. Therefore, we had ample "backpacking" experience from packing in loads and bivying at the base of climbs in the valley and Tenaya Canyon. I joked for years that "we will take up backpacking when we're too old to climb."
So, even though we are not too old to climb, after age 65 we decided we wanted to get serious about backpacking. I concur with the suggestions that ultralight gear is an important game-changer. Keeping the load to (say) 25 or 30 lbs makes it a walk.
|
|
Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2017 - 06:12am PT
|
Starting to enjoy this thing called backpacking... Harriman Park one hour north of NYC and just about had the whole place to myself at near peak colors; probably one week short. Would have gone to the Gunks, but just the reality of climbing on nice weekends at this time of year there kind of makes me nauseous.
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!