I just saw the movie, The Bucket List, which is a funny & thoughtful movie about two terminal cancer patients who meet in a hospital and decide to make a list of things they wanted to do with the few months that they have left.

After seeing it, it got me thinking about what backpacking adventures I wanted to do before I kick the bucket.

Just for fun, list 3 or 4 backpacking related things you want to do before you kick the bucket.

Also, please list your age, as it would be interesting to see the differences in list based on a person's age.


Mine are:

1. Go one a 2-4 week trip with my daughter when she is an adult. (She is 5 yrs old now)

2. Complete the Pacific Crest Trail

3. Complete the Appalachian Trail


I am 39 yrs old.

Edited by Valshar on 12/06/2008 13:13:24 MST.

Hey Tony nice thread, my list is:

Kauai- Along Kauai's Na Pali Coast
Colorado Trail
CDT
Sierra High Route

The 3 big trails - PCT, AT, CDT
Machu Pichu
Everest Base camp. Used to be Everest, but I got too old.

NM

Edited by smyth on 07/23/2011 08:17:28 MDT.

Hi Tony, great idea. Here's my list.

CDT
JMT
PCT
High Sierra Loop (but not stay in the "tent cabins")

There are so many places I'd like to hike with my husband but these would be highlights that I know of currently.

I'm 59 - the clock is ticking!

LV

Edited by eastbayhiker on 12/07/2008 13:17:30 MST.

1. Tahoe Rim Trail

(Pretty short list, but my bucket is minimalist - only 550ml. I'll resupply after I do #1.)

I'd have to say that Roper's Sierra High Route is on my list, but I'm still planning my big trips for 2009:

1 - 2 week Appalachian trail section hike
2 - Maroon Bells 4 pass loop

Edited by jdw01776 on 12/06/2008 15:50:44 MST.

Age 50.

Sierra High Route
Anything in Alaska
CDT in the San Juans, but this time with my two daughters

age 59 (soon)

JMT
Wonderland Trail
anywhere a former co-worker wants to take me in Glacier NP
winter BWCAW traverse

Keep doing 6 to 10 day trips (solo and in company) as long as I'm able.

Age: Pretty close to 70.

good movie

age: 25

Location: San Juans Colorado

List - very incomplete
A big thru hike (or more than one)
Antarctica - anything (when I find a pot of gold)
Patagonia - anything
Hardrock 100 - going for my first 50 mile ultra this summer (Lake City 50)
Alaska
Baffin Island
Greenland

Climb El Capitan
Climb the Titan (Fischer Towers)
Some big route in the Black Canyon
A really long bike tour

Climb lots of peaks - known and unknown - the more the merrier

share the joy with others

- a few hundred miles in the Himalayas (is going to happen this year!)
- CDT (2010)
- finish the Sierra High Route
- a hike in the Semien Mountains
- the Whakan Corridor
- something in the Karakoram
- walk across iceland
- the Hayduke Trail
- China Wall

I'm 25. In three weeks I'm taking off for a year of vagabonding (and hiking!) in Asia, then I'm doing the CDT in 2010 and the AT in 2011.

Edited by Found on 12/07/2008 12:48:04 MST.

1. Week long hike in Alaska or Yellowstone with both of my sons* (26 and 30)

2. Thru hike the AT and PCT

3. Extended hike in the Alps

I am 54

* - not purposefully excluding my wife of 32 years - she's a home & garden variety that's briefly tried and then promptly retired from hiking.

JMT - '09
Machu Pichu - '10
Colorado Trail
Kilamanjaro
Everest Base Camp

I'm 49.

interesting topic, thanks for starting this thread.

Mine would have to be:

1) The big three in USA, CDT PCT AT
2) The Inca Trail to M.P.
3) Tahoe Rim Trail (I know, not really one of the more impressive treks, but I've
ALWAYS wanted to do it.)

I'm a young one (just turned 23) so I have plenty of time, but this is my dream list.

(In no particular order except #1) The list is short on specifics since I have been focusing on #1 since about June.

1. solo Superior Hiking Trail through-hike in winter. (leaving Jan. 3, 2009 - check out Trip Announcement forum for details)
2. PCT/CDT/AT
3. Climb Denali
4. Learn to ice climb
5. Do a big multiweek hike with my brother
6. Do a big multiweek hike with my GF
7. Take my dad anywhere

Edit: I'm 23.

Edited by citystuckhiker on 01/01/2009 08:20:28 MST.

1. Superior Hiking Trail
2. PCT
3. Anything in Alaska
4. Couple of weeks on the CDT and AT
5. Everest Base Camp at some point

I'm just a youngin' at 21. There's a lot more stuff I would put on this list since I've done very few extended trips, but those are the big ones I have been thinking about.

Adam

So many hikes, so little time! Here are the big ones:

Pasayten Wilderness, WA
Wallowa Mountains, OR
Wind River Range, WY (northern end)
Three Sisters Wilderness, OR
Goat Rocks Wilderness, WA

Lord willing (gotta throw in that caveat at my age!), I hope to do these next summer and fall. The two that are close to home were on my last summer's schedule, but the mountain snow didn't melt until August. Since I spent most of August in Colorado and the southern Wind Rivers, and started volunteer teaching in early September, that took care of the "summer"! EDIT: Age 73.

Edited by hikinggranny on 01/07/2009 14:12:59 MST.

I actually started a similar thread recently on Backpacker. If you're looking for ideas, you should definitely check it out. There were a lot of trails suggested that I had never heard of...
http://www.backpacker.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=852107219&t=9991114396

I'm 37 years old...

Colorado Trail
John Muir Trail
Wonderland Trail
Appalachian Trail
(Hopefully, I'm doing the Wonderland Trail in August!)

age:17
1. climb the totem pole (tasmania)
2. Walk the western arthurs (tasmania)
3. climb K2
4. walk to the north pole