Hikers/Back packers/Firetowers - Page 2

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Originally Posted by quercus21 

You can't beat hiking with family members. We haven't been to Bald Mountain yet. Some time in the future.

This last hike, we started on the trail head around 7:15am and returned around 4:15pm. It should have only taken us 5 - 6 hours but........ I hope no one was following our trail. Up on the summit there was a lot of people.

Enjoy the day

  I know the feeling.  Gotta plan our next outing.  Hmmmmmm.

How were your hikes? Any pics?

Went to the park for a while on Saturday.  

Cleaned under roost today and went for a short walk looking for tracks over our hill.  Found some dog/coyote tracks - nothing else, but the ground was frozen and most of the snow was gone.

Nice pictures...really love the bear track one and the one of the lake waaaay down the mtn.

Have had to work a bunch of weekends so that curbs our winter hiking a little.

Also liking the trail.  It looks a little primative and thus fun.

Backpack broke last hike - it's more like a bookbag and I had too much stuff in it.  Brought extra winter socks, gloves and hats in case we got wet along with our lunch, emergency kit and other good stuff (sunscreen, string, pocketknife). 

So now I have to look up good (real) packpacks - one for me and another for my son.

Any favorites? 

Never been a huge hiker, but I live near canoe country and have done a lot of wilderness camping.  You guy's should check out the Kekekabic trail in the Boundary waters canoe area MN.  I've crossed it several times on canoe routes, goes through some amazingly beautiful wilderness... real wilderness, not many people... and loops through pretty wild lake country.  Also some great trails along the North shore of Lake Superior.  I've hiked legs of the trails between roads grouse or deer hunting and snowmobiled some in the winter.  Incredible scenery in the fall traveling through wild and broken country.  You'll need a good map and preferably a GPS.  Most of the wilderness trails up here aren't really well marked and get surprisingly little use.  Worth the trip someday!

As for packs, I like military surplus ALICE packs.  They have an external frame, tons of pockets and tie-down points, they are nearly indestructable and sling the weight low for good balance.  I once packed 75 lb of bear bait in 6 miles and 200 lb of bear meat and hide out (2 trips) some really rough cross country with one.

Hi,  Thank you for the input on backpacks.  Now if that refund check would come from the irs......

We did do a city hike this week and learnd a little history of the town.  Then went to the library to warm up.  Ahhhh, the smell of books.  sigh

Heart run/walk is coming up soon as well as another city hike to area churches.  (Of course with stops inside to warm up.)  Sometimes I feel that cold/warm/cold/warm makes you colder than just dressing in layers for the cold/colder/cold/colder weather.  You all will know what I mean about that.  A hot cup of coffee cures the chills, however.

The MN trip sounds like fun, but we have to work up to that.  Like...purchase a canoe....have a car rack to put it on....have time off to go.....but the way I look at it is that if you never plan for it and work tward it, you will never go.   Sometimes you have to go..."Pack up, we are leaving on a surprise trip in a half hour.  Hup hup hup!"  but not on a canoe trip in the MN wilderness where you want a GPS in order to get home.  :-)

More pics of hikes please.