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I got my first backpack in the rei sale. Is breaking in backpacks, like hiking boots, a thing? Not planning a particularly strenuous first overnight adventure but should I be doing anything before that?
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Okay. So. We're going backpacking tomorrow. She's very experienced, so I'm in good hands. How do I not be afraid of bears, particularly at night
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Jun 4, 2021 06:00
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Olympic peninsula in Washington, just barely outside of the park boundary E: Oh, right, that's the Olympic national forest. Hence the northwest forest pass Bloody fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Jun 4, 2021 06:32
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update: I didn't get eaten by a bear, the trip was a lot of fun, and we mostly just heard frogs and birds 
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Jun 7, 2021 20:23
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I don't even get it. I'm there to hear bird calls and the faint trickle of streams. I get lost in thought or absorbed in the scenery. Obviously they're out there for different reasons, but I don't know what those are. Unfortunately this is completely impossible in the Snoqualmie / north bend area
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Jun 17, 2021 04:01
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withak posted:Good dog.
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Jul 11, 2021 14:53
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Are there any overnight hikes within a few hours of Seattle that aren't guaranteed to be snowy and cold in early November?
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Oct 10, 2021 04:13
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Mostly just trying to hold on to the last vestiges of fall and squeeze in another backpacking trip before the season is over (for me). Elevation and distance can be whatever, I just want to get out again. I'm guessing the Olympics might have some good options?
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Oct 10, 2021 15:30
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Dang and here I've just been tossing my wool socks in with the rest of my laundry without a second thought for years
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Dec 16, 2021 20:29
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Lower Lena lake is 3.5 one way and beautiful. Can be extremely busy on the weekends, so either an early start or a weekday if you can swing it. Iirc we hiked in Friday after work and had our pick of campsites, but saw many people headed in on Saturday morning, at least some of whom were surely not getting sites One of those groups was two dads and idk maybe a cub scout troop or something? Like eight young boys. And they were definitely starting too late for campsites
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Apr 27, 2022 16:01
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weekday hiking in the greater seattle are is one million times better than weekend hiking if it is at all possible to do any kind of schedule heroics to make it work
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Jun 2, 2022 01:07
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Yeah the Canadian website is uhhhh not that good. It's like a worse rec dot gov
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Sep 13, 2022 12:52
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Windy is excellent
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Nov 6, 2022 16:31
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LiterallyATomato posted:Does anyone have any experience hiking with camera equipment (like a DSLR and some lenses, not just a cell phone.) I want to go in a couple day hikes on the Olympic Peninsula in WA state. Wondering what's the best way to pack. I am a novice hiker. I regularly hike and backpack with my dslr and extremely highly recommend this clip to sling it off a backpack strap: https://www.peakdesign.com/products/capture. It’s been comfortable with a D7500 + 18-300mm lens slung from it on 14+ mile hikes and I am a very big fan of having my camera more or less always at the ready so I’m not slowing down people I’m hiking with to get shots on the trail I really want to find a way to backpack with my 200-500 but I think it might be simply Too Big
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Nov 21, 2022 06:48
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speaking of old growth, are there any great spots in the greater western washington to see gigantic trees? my favorite spot in the past, grove of the patriarchs, has been closed for 2+ years now because the bridge got washed out back in 2021. I've got family visiting in a couple of weeks and I want to blow their minds
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Apr 15, 2023 01:00
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nope, it's at mount rainier, looks like that's out in the olympics?
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Apr 15, 2023 01:26
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Verman posted:Now I have a mental image of someone hiking and just screaming bloody murder the whole way. fwiw don’t do this whether you’re hiking alone or with others
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Apr 20, 2023 05:34
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We backpacked in some pretty heavy rain Friday night, and I woke up with a sleeping pad with a damp bottom. Is a wet tent floor an equipment failure, a campsite selection failure, or a bit of both? e to add: our campsite had a minor amount of slope. the wettest in-tent area was also the most uphill part. the tent footprint was quite wet; the bottom of the tent itself somewhat less wet. the tent and footprint are both 7 years old. Bloody fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jun 11, 2023 |
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Jun 11, 2023 17:33
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We recently got a durston x-mid 2p but haven’t actually slept in it yet. Was reasonably easy to pitch in the yard, and, while smaller than our 6 pound 3p tent, seems like a more efficient use of space We were going to use it for its maiden voyage last weekend in Denali but then my partner snapped a trekking pole 4 miles in and a 2 pole tent is rough to pitch with just 1 (telescoping) pole (my z-style poles are way too long to pitch with unfortunately)
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Jul 12, 2023 05:35
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if you do burroughs (or fremont lookout for that matter), do the return loop via the wonderland trail, it typically has practically nobody on it and some lovely views and terrain of its own
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Aug 18, 2023 21:40
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We went to grove of titans with an early but not unreasonably so start and had it entirely to ourselves. Absolutely magical.
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Aug 19, 2023 20:59
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We did the hanakapi’ai falls portion last year. I don’t know how the backcountry / overnight part works but the permits weren’t bad for day use. Private vehicle permits were totally impossible, but the shuttle was just fine. As I recall the shuttle stop would be reasonable to walk to from hanalei, but it also had loads of parking available. We did the falls without poles and by god do I wish I’d brought them
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Aug 28, 2023 05:51
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We use an x-mid 2p now and love basically everything about it. Mildly regret not springing for the dcf one but the stuffability of the silpoly is nice and even at 2 pounds it’s still four pounds lighter than our old tent. Pitches easily and robustly, breaks down easily. I haven’t bothered unhooking the inner tent from the tarp so it’s just that much faster
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Sep 4, 2023 23:47
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Good to know! I saw some inconsistent measurements given on his site and wasn’t sure. Our 25” pads fit quite snugly in the nonpro
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Sep 5, 2023 06:33
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Sab669 posted:Hey thread; any Adirondack recommendations? I kinda feel like you can't go wrong no matter what you choose but I haven't been to the dacks this year (its pretty far from Seattle) but I practically grew up there and my parents summer there. As I understand it, it's been an outrageously wet summer, so bear that in mind for all activities - the Northville-Placid Trail, muddy at the best of times, is apparently just 3 feet deep in some places. General hiking recs in the Adirondacks are always going to include the high peaks in the Lake Placid area, which will be very busy on the weekends. For an easier hike, I'd skip the high peaks themselves entirely and do the Mount Jo hike from the Adirondak Loj - 2 miles round-trip, with a sunrise over the high peaks if you timed it. The park is very large, though, so you could easily be climbing 2 hours away. I feel like the place I used to always see climbers was kinda down towards North Creek (looking at a map, I think Starbuck Mountain and Black Mountain)? If so, Moxham Mountain is RIGHT there, and recently became one of my Adirondack faves - good mix of everything nice about Adirondack hiking, with decent views at the end, all in around 5-6 miles, and no crowds. That said, once you have a better idea of where you'll be, I can probably give more recs!
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Sep 6, 2023 15:42
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Ya your non waterproof options are more likely to be trail runners or similar
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Dec 16, 2023 18:41
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Hiking is cool + good
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Jan 8, 2024 01:51
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Anyone happen to have winter backpacking recs for Washington state? Not interested in dying in an avalanche, would prefer rainy as opposed to snowy, but am not opposed to a snowshoe adventure. I feel like some of the valleys in the Olympics should be good albeit very wet this time of year? Not looking for anything crazy, just getting cabin fever
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Jan 21, 2024 18:41
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Good dogs, my deepest condolences. Losing adventure pup pals is brutally hard.
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Feb 5, 2024 18:23
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