Favorite Adventure You’ve Done

[Rusty Shackelford]

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.

Peacocks are on my hit list. Even if I have throw flies in some runoff ditch in Florida

 

[Tjdeerslayer37]

Peacocks are on my hit list. Even if I have throw flies in some runoff ditch in Florida

Its insane how aggressive they can be. Thought it was crazy when my buddy insisted i spool up with 40# braid and ensure everything had 3x hooks on it... till i hooked a couple

 

[Sitkaspruce]

Some great adventures everyone!!

I have three that really stand out.

First was guiding hunters for Mt. Goats, Moose and bears, both species before they cancelled the grizzly hunt. I did this for 15 years and never regretted giving up some of my hunting time to meet some awesome people and watch them get some amazing animals!





The second adventure was in 2019, where we went to Budapest, Hungary for Christmas and then travelled to the Czech Republic to watch the World Junior Hockey Tournament.....and watching Canada win GOLD!!

But I also went to one of the most eerie and emotionally humbling places I have ever been to. Auschwitz and Birkenau.

And this summer we went to the Arctic Ocean, a simple and amazing trip!







Cheers

SS

 

[Dogone]

I spent three winters working seismic in the Arctic islands. Months on end of 40 below and working outside. Got to within 400 miles of the pole. I have since worked in minefields, been a crop duster and bush pilot. But that time in the Arctic was the pinnacle adventure.

 

[SloppyJ]

Not hubting related but smack dab when covid was hot and heavy my wife planned a 10day trip to Mexico. Kicker was that she wanted to travel to 4 or 5 different towns and get airbnbs. No resorts or anything touristy.

We flew to cozumel, stayed a night in Playa Del Carmin and grabbed a car the next morning. Went to see myan ruins and stayed over there for 2 days, went to Tulum and dove in a few cenotes, went to Holbox and stayed for 3 days, dove with whale sharks. We went all over and met some really cool people and had the best time.

It was just the right amount of shady. I thought she was insane because people were getting kidnapped at that time. Now I know she's crazy but that was one hell of a vacation and I recommend it to everyone.

We ran from the rental car place in the rain with our luggage and they canceled the ferry across to cozumel as I was pouring water out of my shoes. Spent 2hrs in the cozumel airport and they swapped our plane tickets for free and we spent two extra nights in cozumel. Just all around something I'll always remember.

 

[Jmort1754]

3 years in Germany, traveling every chance I could get. Turns out the Germans work way less than Americans.

One of the best trips was we jumped in a rental car drove 100 miles an hour down the A9. A buddies mom worked for the state department. Met up with marines who were off duty at the time and drank ourselves silly Thursday night, attempted to pick up Polish and Irish women, only succesful with Irish.

Found out the next day the Irish girls were flying back to Dublin, so we bought plane tickets, and off to Dublin we went.

Just the carefree attitudes of young and dumb soldiers getting us by.

At times I wish camera phones were a thing back then.

 

[Bert01]

+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.

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The Bob is up there for me, from Ovando to mid creek take out twice in the last 10 years. Other than that, Europe with the wife twice, and Argentina were great memories.

 

[rodney482]

Hudson Bay Caribou hunt

 

[Pharmseller]

More Panamá pics because why not

Panamá City from our hotel room



The canal



Fish market



Fresh produce. The colors were amazing.



It’s an old place



I could get used to this



Roadside stands selling avocados for a buck



National currency is the American dollar. This margarita was plenty strong, and $4.95



View of the beach








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[Luke S]

Actually my favorite trip (not at the time) was a packraft trip in British Columbia. We hiked up to Fortress Lake in Jasper and attempted to packraft down the Wood River to Athabasca Pass. This was before Google Earth was as good as it is now. Turned in to an "epic." We portaged around multiple waterfalls and big rapids. Eventually we got on the river and trashed a raft with my friend almost drowning in a swim. It was supposed to be a 5 day trip but we got home in 11 days. All my pants were too big for a couple weeks. My friend weighed himself and lost 14 pounds. It ended up as a YouTube video that I was sort of embarrassed about (because we made mistakes).

Best part is 2 years later the guy who edited the video told me about a "dream job" in Alaska so I moved north. I was happy as a clam for a while. The job ended, I moved to another job and met my lovely wife. God works in interesting ways. The best trip I'll never do again.

 

[Jake Larsen]

Actually my favorite trip (not at the time) was a packraft trip in British Columbia. We hiked up to Fortress Lake in Jasper and attempted to packraft down the Wood River to Athabasca Pass. This was before Google Earth was as good as it is now. Turned in to an "epic." We portaged around multiple waterfalls and big rapids. Eventually we got on the river and trashed a raft with my friend almost drowning in a swim. It was supposed to be a 5 day trip but we got home in 11 days. All my pants were too big for a couple weeks. My friend weighed himself and lost 14 pounds. It ended up as a YouTube video that I was sort of embarrassed about (because we made mistakes).

Best part is 2 years later the guy who edited the video told me about a "dream job" in Alaska so I moved north. I was happy as a clam for a while. The job ended, I moved to another job and met my lovely wife. God works in interesting ways. The best trip I'll never do again.

How is the hike into fortress? That’s been on my radar for a year or two.


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[Luke S]

The hike is fine as I recall. Crossing the Chaba river requires a boat unless the bridge was rebuilt.

 

[mtwarden]

Actually my favorite trip (not at the time) was a packraft trip in British Columbia. We hiked up to Fortress Lake in Jasper and attempted to packraft down the Wood River to Athabasca Pass. This was before Google Earth was as good as it is now. Turned in to an "epic." We portaged around multiple waterfalls and big rapids. Eventually we got on the river and trashed a raft with my friend almost drowning in a swim. It was supposed to be a 5 day trip but we got home in 11 days. All my pants were too big for a couple weeks. My friend weighed himself and lost 14 pounds. It ended up as a YouTube video that I was sort of embarrassed about (because we made mistakes).

Best part is 2 years later the guy who edited the video told me about a "dream job" in Alaska so I moved north. I was happy as a clam for a while. The job ended, I moved to another job and met my lovely wife. God works in interesting ways. The best trip I'll never do again.

I remember reading your account on backpackinglight, was a great read, but a scary situation for sure!

 

[BigBelle]

My 3 month trip to Russia is definitely up there. So is the cruise I went on after being declared cancer free, I checked off some bucket list stuff like visiting Mayan ruins. The spontaneous diving trip to Cozumel Mexico and Roatan is up there too. So is my trip to Paris for my husband's birthday. Hiking and mountain biking camping trips to Zion, Bryce Canyon, Sedona, and Ouray, Durango, and Telluride, CO were all amazing as well! Especially when hunting for the perfect spot of the creek to find minnows or tadpoles, or seeing moose, or finding pretty spiders and their webs, and documenting different mushrooms in my sketchbook.

Someday I really want to go to Vietnam.