backpacking Rocky Mountain National Park - 2017 The annual Firehole backpacking trip, this year to Rocky Mountain National Park. Car camping, day hiking, fishing, backpacking, you-can-camp-anywhere-but-you-can't-camp-anywhere Camping Zone, bushwacking and snow hiking at the end of July.
backpacking Grand Canyon 2012 Len, Ben, Joel, John, and Mike do a 6 night backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. Initial trailhead is Hermit’s Rest, nights at Hermit’s Creek, Granite Rapids, Salt
backpacking You brought a turkey? There’s a place in Glacier National Park called the Granite Park Chalet. Granite Park is one of two chalets left for hikers in Glacier, the other being the Sperry
backpacking High Sierra Trail / Mt. Whitney 2010 Len, Ben, Mike, Tony, and Jeff’s first trip includes a traverse of the High Sierra Trail from Crescent Meadow to the Mt. Whitney Portal. Regular hikers Joel and John
backpacking Buckskin Gulch / Paria Canyon 2009 Len, Ben, John, Tony, and Mike fly into Vegas, spend some time in Zion National Park and head to the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness. They leave the Wire Pass trailhead and
backpacking Grand Canyon 2007 Len, Joel, Tony, John, and Mike head to the Grand Canyon for an October backcountry trip from Grandview Point, along the Tonto Trail, to Phantom Ranch and then up to
backpacking Glacier National Park, Roadtrip IV, 2006 This year, we arrived at GNP from the east on Thursday, 7/27, and were staying for three nights at Cut Bank. Our plans called for a couple of day
backpacking Yellowstone 2005, the Thorofare Len, John, Joel, and Ben will be driving non-stop from the Chicago suburbs to Yellowstone National Park, 22 hours of sheer highway excitement. Two nights at Slough Creek to start
backpacking Yosemite, 2004 Len, John, Joel, Tony, Chris, and Ben fly from Chicago to Reno, rent a couple of cars and drive to Yosemite National Park. A couple of day hikes, a night
backpacking Glacier Roadtrip II, 2003 24 hour roadtrip in a van from the Chicago area to Glacier National park, followed by 10 days of dayhiking and backpacking. Len, John, Joel, and Joe-joe do the cross-country
backpacking GNP, Y2K Year 2000 trip to Glacier National Park. Dayhiking, a trip to the Granite Park Chalet and a backcountry trek over Boulder Pass, complete with a forest fire, make this an
backpacking YNP, 1999 Speciman Ridge and 7-mile Hole dayhiking and an overnight trip on the Yellowstone River Trail with Len, Joel, and Ben. Ben’s first backcountry trip, a shirt lost forever in the raging Yellowstone, and a dip in the ice-cold Yellowstone River make this trip