Longest one day hike?

[ghostdog]

Originally Posted by Grandpa

Thanks Ghost dog. I've been all over in the canyons to the south but never up there. Sounds like I may want a week or more for that one. I was thinking I'd do the Woodenshoe, Peavine loop for starters.

That sounds so fine. I just looked up the route you are considering in one of my reference books, Hiking the Grand Staircase Escalante and the Glen Canyon Region.

An ambitious loop backpack in the Dark Canyon Wilderness...scenery ranging from conifer and aspen forests to the arid, wooded depths of incomparable Dark Canyon... 40.3 miles...perhaps the finest and most rewarding backpack in Dark Canyon...experienced canyon country hikers only...

I'm going to read more about it later tonight.

[Grandpa]

Originally Posted by ghostdog

That sounds so fine. I just looked up the route you are considering in one of my reference books, Hiking the Grand Staircase Escalante and the Glen Canyon Region.
I'm going to read more about it later tonight.

That's the guide book I have as well. I've got the TI map #703 ordered and I've also got Utah on the Nat Geo state series. Once I get my water holes planned and verified, I think I'll plan a full week in there so I can play around and do some side trips. I hope I can get in there around early May although they have had more winter than we have. I was surprised at how high the upper end of Dark Canyon is.

[ghostdog]

Originally Posted by Grandpa

That's the guide book I have as well. I've got the TI map #703 ordered and I've also got Utah on the Nat Geo state series. Once I get my water holes planned and verified, I think I'll plan a full week in there so I can play around and do some side trips. I hope I can get in there around early May although they have had more winter than we have. I was surprised at how high the upper end of Dark Canyon is.

I think I have every TI map in southern Utah and had the TI #703 with me on that Dark Canyon trip. It helped just navigating the back roads to get to the trailhead in conjunction with my hiking GPS, as well as going on afoot. I have some of our campsites marked on it in other places we have been south of Dark Canyon. Another area I like is the White Canyon/Natural Bridges area. I got that National Geo Topo of Utah when it was V2.6 years ago. That has come in real handy for printing very detailed maps in areas we have gone to explore all over southern Utah.

I just counted my reference book collection for the southwest alone and it contains 62 volumes. I get a little carried away with both books and maps.

[Grandpa]

Originally Posted by ghostdog

I just counted my reference book collection for the southwest alone and it contains 62 volumes. I get a little carried away with both books and maps.

Maps are a backpackers pornography.

[ghostdog]

Originally Posted by Grandpa

Maps are a backpackers pornography.

That's the truth. I counted 21 TI maps and have Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and California on National Geo Topo disks.

I was trying to figure out the route Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac took on their famous trip into the Sierras in The Dharma Bums. I looked over the place names on National Geo Topo and found everything including the peak they called the Matterhorn. It is all in Yosemite. After that trip where Gary loaned Jack all the equipment he needed, old mad Jack wanted to go out immediately and build his own outfit for rucksack travel.

[Grandpa]

Originally Posted by ghostdog

That's the truth. I counted 21 TI maps and have Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and California on National Geo Topo disks.

I was trying to figure out the route Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac took on their famous trip into the Sierras in The Dharma Bums. I looked over the place names on National Geo Topo and found everything including the peak they called the Matterhorn. It is all in Yosemite. After that trip where Gary loaned Jack all the equipment he needed, old mad Jack wanted to go out immediately and build his own outfit for rucksack travel.

And mine go from Utah north, including Co, Nv, Wy, Mt, Or, Wa, with just a couple of dips into Az and Ca.