Backpacking

I LOVE LOVE COYOTE GULCH! Will, good choice of backpacking locations. This was one of my favorite trips! So much variety- from rock climbing, to sand, to waist high water. I love Coyote Gulch. Did you love it?

perfect ;)

I have made it to all the local peaks around the ogden, ut. area which are small to comparison to most mountaineers. this summer kings peak the highest peak in utah sits at 13528' others i have climbed were all but 10000'. My goal for now is the grand tetons in wyoming but i most likely wont be able to atain that for a few years.

my higest summit was 13,500' its was flipping sweet

All great tips.Don't forget to keep your gear 'light' remember 'every oz counts'!!

living the dream at the very moment, now in Bogota, Colombia going to Peru nextb :-)

Brazil was one of the best adventures i ever had

Lost in the woods? Oh hell no!

As far as packing goes with weight distribution, I follow the guidlines that you carry medium weight at the bottom, heavy weight in the middle, and light weight at the top. You want to have the heavy weight as close to your body as possible so that you don't lose your center of balance. Men have a higher center of balance so they tend to prefer the... Read More weight to be high-- women tend to have a lower center of balance so they tend to like the weight to be lower.
It also depends on the surface you're walking on and if you're using an internal or external frame pack. Much of this information can be found in the backpacker's field manual-- somewhat of an essential read for anyone who is going to be backpacking.

Down South we have our own language as well -
*djeet? - means "did you eat?
*furpiece - means "if you are walking, it's a long way...."
*o'r'yonder - means - somewhere off in that direction
*fars out - means - gets some more wood and gas and get that fire going... Read More

give me a while and I'll get my Grizzard books back out and post some more...

Here's some more additions to southern slang.
*Yantoo?- Means do you want to, or if you want to.
*Yuns- meaning you all.
*Yall- Means you all.
*Chickrenz- means chicken and dumplings.... Read More
here are some sayings.
"Colder than a Witches titty in a brass bras." MEAns its cold as hell.

"Its colder than darnit." MEans its realy cold.

"slower Than Molasis in january." MEans its reallly slow.

"finer than frog hair" MEans its really fin, rare, or valuable

"More stubborn than a mule" MEans really stubborn.

and here's one of my favorite.

I'm on it like white on rice on a paper plate in a snow storm awnd an igloo in antarctica.

walking through a couple miles of horse crap is really great, and they make the trail really freaking dusty, screw horses, i got two legs that arent broken

@ Petra, I like the way you think! Nature has a strange attraction, and once your in it, you tend to see things differently... Stresses that once kept you up at night all of the sudden don't exist... and life feels so much "simple-er" and "in-it's-place"... :0)

So true...