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.

 

[keller]

Driving from Wi to Alaska and back. Tenting along the road. Hunting, fishing, hiking.with family and friends and two kids. They still talk about it. Like alot of people my parents always talked about doing this when they retired. Well they never did. Do it while you can for tomorrow is not guaranteed!!

 

[PeteMac]

(Lituya Bay, AK)

I spent a few months sailing Southeast Alaska for a one-of-a-kind skipper with a lot of local knowledge and an appetite for pushing crew to the limit in pursuit of a good adventure. I did more, saw more, and learned more in a short time than seemed possible. My only regret is that I didn't stay on for longer!

 

[LeftyWilbury]

had a week's wait for drug test results after my first year of college...for bagging groceries? ok, whatever. i can wait... call up a buddy, "hey you wanna drive to chicago (from san diego...)?" buddy says, "well, I have class til 9pm thursday evening and have to be back for class tuesday night." i do some rough calculations. "i think we can do it."

4500 miles, five days. SoCal to Cincy, to chicago, back through denver in a summer downpour and down to so cal. lots of fun little nuggets on that journey. don't let anyone tell you a little chevy sprint cant do 120mph. also, i don't recommend anyone drive a chevy sprint faster than 55. or at all.

2003 got laid off. had some more time to kill. needed to finish up some of the 50 states i was missing, visit some friends etc. drove from oakland, CA to somewhere in maine "to get some lobster"...via a crazy-8 across north america. up to far northern Ontario, down through Quebec into Vermont and Maine, into NYC, then back west through PA and Cincy down to Nashvegas, then back up to Chicago and across ND through MT and back down to the 80 in SLC.

10,000 miles in 31 days. wasn't driving the whole time either. had a few days of R&R every now and again ha. i miss that 91 toyota Xcab. we had a lot of fun. thankfully i drive a less these days...

 

[Jake Larsen]

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

Was planing on packing in an Alpaca caribou for river crossings/fishing access. Won’t plan on floating the Wood River back out That looked like a rodeo, albeit a really sweet trip.


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[Luke S]

Okay that should work fine. It can be tricky water so just be smart (some guys I know skip things like PFDs for short crossings) crossings.
I think you could float out on the Chaba but I haven't done it, others have. Obviously do your due diligence on research. I think that flows down to Athabascan Falls and I think Parks Canada might have some boating rules.

 

[roosiebull]

Need for adventure is the reason I can’t get away from ocean work.

I would say my favorite “adventure” was when I was 19, my first year I worked in Alaska.

Me and 2 other people left coos coos bay, with no real ocean navigation experience (just lots of running boats around familiar areas)

It took us 8 days running full time besides stopping in port Angeles to get fuel. It was pretty surreal pulling into Ketchikan, with like 200 bucks to my name, and no solid plan. The plan was to get an urchin permit, but had nothing lined up, but the owner of the boat wanted me to go up there because he wanted me on the crew.

I split deckhand work with our main deckhand for a couple months until my boss lined up a permit for me, and he had the plant buy it, and I would pay it off 5 cents per pound that I picked (permit was just over 12k) so the plan started working.

I was there for a year that time, and we would come in every other day to unload in Craig, which was about a 7hr boat ride.

It was fun, working a long way from any people, in some of the most scenic places there are. We would pretty much eat fish for dinner every night because it was easy and available, and we would anchor up to sleep in one of the many bays on the west side of Dall island. Just the boating adventure was awesome up there, between exploring completely new places and the crazy bad weather in winter, but besides all of that, it’s amazing diving up there and that’s all we did, all day, every day.

It was a very fun time of my life, and we had a lot of fun, even though it was a grind, it was a good crew, and we made the best out of it. Being stuck on a boat with people will either make people close, or hate each other, luckily there was no crew drama, everyone had the same goal, everyone had thick skin, and everyone worked hard and pulled their weight, and we shared a lot of cool adventure