Favorite Adventure You’ve Done

[NRA4LIFE]

Probably taking our boat out 50 miles out on the Pacific Ocean to halibut and cod fish a number of times. A couple trips into the Boundary Waters was cool too.

 

[CMF]

Selling the house, going full time in an RV for 3+ years with 3 kids.
Covering 45 of 50 states, 47 of 63 National Parks
Hunting more days out west than I could have done taking a week off every year for 20 years. Including CO, NM, AZ & MT, Elk, muley, and bear every year, barbary sheep, oryx, and Idaho spring bear.
Bass fished Maine, salmon/rockfished in WA, fished/iguana hunted south FL, Turkey and deer hunted KS, Squirrel hunted GA, Turkey hunted and fished Missouri, striped bass in Maryland, trout fished the yellowstone in MT. shot quail and jackrabbit in NM. I'm sure a few more hunts/fishing that I'm not thinking of...
Offshore fishing is a favorite adventure as well, especially overnight for tuna.

 

[cnelk]

DIY Fly-in AK moose hunt

Having my 60” moose rack strapped to the wing of a SuperCub was pretty cool.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Years ago, a buddy and me drove down to southern Mexico in a beat up ford fiesta and climbed el pico de orizaba. Total DIY type thing. Still good buddies with that guy even 20 years later.

 

[Drenalin]

When I was 5 I ran away from home. I could only pack so much in my red Jansport backpack, but I remember my Etch-A-Sketch made the cut. Headed to the playground and used scavenged vegetation, sticks and leaves, to plug up the open side in some playground equipment so I could have a little cubby protected from the weather (it was winter but no snow on the ground). Once I got the hole plugged up I curled up and took out my possessions and looked them over and mentally said goodbye to my family. I was a new boy now, unburdened by rules and expectations of others. I was only answerable to myself.

As the afternoon turned to evening I looked out and could see the warmth of the orange glowing light escaping the windows of the houses all around, and I realized I didn't bring any food and I was getting hungry. So I went home and sheepishly entered the house and re-accepted my old life, if only temporarily. I would make better plans for my next runaway. Still working on them in fact.

I did something similar at the same age, but in my frustration I only packed underwear. My adventure was short-lived.

 

[Drenalin]

From birth to 17 years old, I was never more than 50 miles from home, and that might be generous. 10 days before I turned 18, I shipped out for boot camp…the next 6 years were the biggest adventure I’ve had so far, and were a dream come true. Still trying to rediscover that.

My big adventures these days are taking kids on weekend backpacking trips. Seeing them totally out of their element, and helping them get things figured out is a lot more rewarding than I expected it to be.

 

[mtwarden]

Adventures plural. Every year at the end of May I do an even called the Bob Marshall Open; it's a multi-day (usually in the 100-ish mile range) event that criss crosses the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Every year the start and finish point changes, what route you choose to arrive at the finish is up to you.

As it's in May snowshoes are a must to get across multiple passes, fording creek and rivers is usually the crux every year as the water is fast and high at this time of year and the weather runs the gamut (often in the same event).

I've been doing it ten years and hope to be able to do it a few more years

 

[longspeak74]

Shortly after graduating college, I visited a good friend in Denver - drove from WI straight through. Arrived on a Friday night, found a cheap apartment downtown Denver a block off Colfax and a job at Cherry Creek Mall on Saturday then drove straight through back to WI.
Pulled in my folks driveway, packed a bag, shoved $500 in my pocket and turned around. That was near 30 years ago, but that "taking the plunge" shaped my life.
I saw some eye-opening things from the front stoop of that old apartment building!

 

[Pharmseller]

Went on a relocation tour in Panamá a couple of years ago.





My wife and I are investigating retirement options. Loved Panamá, it was quite an adventure.




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[LIWolverine]

The day after I graduated high school I hopped on a plane, by myself, to Johannesburg. I spent 31 days with a hunting outfitter there doing grunt work and learning to guide and hunt African game.

The trip started with a few days in Jo then a drive to Zulu Land. Couple days hunting there with clients then a drive to the Northern Province.

10 days there then a 6 day Land Cruiser trip to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. On that trip there were numerous bribes and gun point conversations with local militias, officials and random citizens. Quite an experience for this white Texas kid.

Couple days there then a long drive into the Selous to get camp set up for some hunters coming in. I was dropped back in Dar and the guy who was supposed to get me never showed. Two other guys came to pick me up and didn’t speak any English. I had no idea where they were taking me when they dropped me off at the wrong place. I went inside to talk to the folks there at the hotel and when I came back out my stuff was on the ground and they were gone.

I had to navigate Dar for 4 days on my own and figure out how to get myself the rest of the way back home to Houston.

It’s an experience I could never trade and would do it again in a heart beat. The whole reason I went was determine if I wanted to be a PH and move to Africa instead of going to college. I knew I could never deal with the open corruption and danger there when we had all of our freedoms back in the states. Made me as grateful as ever for the US.


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[TheGrayRider]

Adventures plural. Every year at the end of May I do an even called the Bob Marshall Open; it's a multi-day (usually in the 100-ish mile range) event that criss crosses the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Every year the start and finish point changes, what route you choose to arrive at the finish is up to you.

As it's in May snowshoes are a must to get across multiple passes, fording creek and rivers is usually the crux every year as the water is fast and high at this time of year and the weather runs the gamut (often in the same event).

I've been doing it ten years and hope to be able to do it a few more years

+1. “The Big Bob” is an extraordinary place, mtwarden. I want to return again - Montana is special. Happy hunting and hiking, TheGrayRider a/k/a Tom.

 

[timekiller13]

summer 2004.

Visited 23 national parks and over dozen national monuments and tons of state parks over the course of about 40 days.

It was an actual college course. We slept on a bus many nights (about 15 college students). Camped in Grand Canyon, Zion, Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. Road horses in Bryce Canyon. Kayaked with whales in the NW.

It was an amazing adventure.

 

[Davyalabama]

Multiple two weeks trips to the Florida Keys, after the first trip, we realized we only need a day in Key West, the other Keys are so much nicer. We drive it every couple years or so.

Nothing like sailing to Australia, like the one fellow at the beginning of this thread.

 

[Steve O]

Hunting wise; getting dropped off on Nunivak Island to hunt Musk Ox. Otherwise hiking the Grand Canyon R2R2R with my daughter Labor Day weekend before she started Sr year of high school.

 

[Rusty Shackelford]

When my wife and I got married we had planned to take our 2 week honeymoon in Vietnam. Since it was during Covid our flights got scrapped so instead we loaded our fishing gear in our little truck and took off. We fished our way from NM all the way up to Montana and back sleeping in the back of the truck. It was my first time taking a vacation with no agenda, just go wherever we feel like going when we feel like it. It was awesome and I plan on doing similar trips with my son.

 

[timekiller13]

Another fun adventure.

Several years ago my wife and I flew to Alaska, rented an RV and spent 10 days traveling all over Alaska. No real plan we just drove around, of course we hit the major spots like Denali and Wrangell. But we also just did whatever we wanted. Camped by a river one night and grilled freshly caught salmon. Had a moose come right up to our RV. Camped by the beach one night and had a grizzly come within 50 yds of us.

 

[Nickofthewoods]

Best international adventure for me was probably backpacking and fishing in New Zealand staying at some of the backcountry huts along the way.

My all time favorite though was a solo Wind River backpacking trip about 10 years ago. I went the first week of June which is much earlier than the typical backpacking season there due to lingering snow and heavy runoff but I also didn't see a soul the entire time. I had been recovering from a terrible ski accident which required surgery for most of the winter so even though my physician highly recommended I wait a few more months to backpack my cabin fever was too high so I went as soon as I could. My goal was to get to some lakes with Golden Trout that I had failed to reach on a previous trip because my friend that was with me that year got nervous that is was too far into the wilderness if something happened and he couldn't get back to work on time, so I only made it to within about 7 miles of the lakes that trip.

This time I made it but it was very difficult due to the high runoff. I was able to cross one stream that was about thigh deep but I came to a very large lake that had absolutely uncrossable raging whitewater both coming in and going out of the lake so crossing was a no go. The next plan became crossing the lake itself so I came up with an equally foolish idea of building a raft out of some logs with my big agnes air core and all my gear strapped to the top while using an old burned out log as a paddle. It worked but icy water with no life jacket was obviously not a great idea in hindsight. I couldn't find any pictures but I still have a video with the raft in it so I took some screenshots to share. It was a great fishing trip too. The goldens were a lot of fun but the fish of the trip was a stout 20 inch snake river cutthroat in an unnamed stream 25 miles from nowhere.

 

[Tjdeerslayer37]

Couple years ago i spent 11 days in the jungles of Colombia fishing for peacock bass and other fish. Coolest experience ever. Always wanted to see the rainforest and got to do so while fishing, ill be back for sure.

 

[william schmaltz]

About 11 years ago my girlfriend said she wanted to move somewhere new after graduation with her DPT. We dated for 1.5 years but I was a roughneck 7 days on 7 days off and she was on clinical rotation in other states for half of it. So we hardly spent time with each other, relatively speaking. We couldn’t agree on a place to move to/explore for a couple years. I threw out Alaska and she called my bluff. Six months later we were driving through Canada to a state we’d never even visited. Ten and a half years later, our adventure continues with kids thrown in the mix…..whole lot of fly in hunts and backpack trips in that time and several more already in the books.

 

[MNGrouser]

Some of yawls' idea of adventure is humbling! I haven't done much by comparison. I don't even dare contribute.