California: big sur, redlands, yosemite – red peak pass loop, tuolumne meadows to twin lakes
washington: mt. rainier – tahoma glacier – wonderland trail
Montana: glacier: pitamakan-dawson passes loop, redgap pass,northern circle.
wyoming: yellowstone (mt. washburn from dunraven pass, heart lake and mt. sheridan, old faithful to bechler ranger station)
arizona: grand canyon, grandview trail to horseshoe mesa;
north dakota: Maah Daah Hey Trail, Dakota Prairie National Grasslands. badlands 2 months ago

4 day loop. 28 miles. 8000 ft elevation gain. 2 months ago

Weminuche Wilderness
Elk Park/Needleton loop

Take a train to some of Colorado’s most rugged and beautiful terrain.

The remote San Juans of southwest Colorado offer limitless backpacking opportunities, but none compare with the adventure of this gorgeous loop in the Weminuche Wilderness near Silverton. Get dropped off by the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, spend five or six days enjoying some of the best mountain scenery Colorado has to offer, maybe climb a fourteener in Chicago Basin, and get picked up by the train at the end of the loop. This may be the quintessential Colorado experience.

Distance: 36 miles, 8,000 feet of elevation gain.

Getting there: Both the Elk Park and Needleton trailheads are reachable only by train from Durango or Silverton – or a long hike in from either direction. 2 months ago

i want nothing more than to be in the wilderness with my girlfriend, trees like a thousand pillars of mortals passed, watching over us, leaves detatched and cast outwards to bury us under nature’s just silence, warmed by decaying leaves, at last released from the horrors of the twenty-first century. 10 months ago