Post by markweth on Aug 1, 2016 10:20:31 GMT -8
A trip report from a four-night, 50-mile hike earlier this summer in Idaho. The trip report is published in the online magazine TrailGroove along with several other great trip reports and articles.
Not trying to spam or anything, but since the formatted article is already posted there I didn't feel like copying/pasting/adding photos/etc. Thanks for understanding. I haven't been too active here lately (busy summer) but wanted to drop and post this since it seemed like trip reports are still somewhat few and far between. The ones that have been posted are top-notch, I really enjoyed cweston's one about a Gore Range trip.
Enjoy!
The Selway River Trail
Most backpacking trips enter a figurative “Paradise” at some point or another. It could be an exquisite sunset, a perfect campsite, or time spent mesmerized by a waterfall. My trip along the Selway River Trail with my stalwart backpacking companion Justin had the amusing distinction of actually beginning at a Paradise. The Paradise boat launch and trailhead in the Bitterroot National Forest in a remote corner of Idaho, to be exact. From here we would follow the Selway River downstream for approximately 50 miles and pass through some of the most remote country in the Lower 48...
Read more at:
www.trailgroove.com/issue29.html?autoflip=41
Not trying to spam or anything, but since the formatted article is already posted there I didn't feel like copying/pasting/adding photos/etc. Thanks for understanding. I haven't been too active here lately (busy summer) but wanted to drop and post this since it seemed like trip reports are still somewhat few and far between. The ones that have been posted are top-notch, I really enjoyed cweston's one about a Gore Range trip.
Enjoy!
The Selway River Trail
Most backpacking trips enter a figurative “Paradise” at some point or another. It could be an exquisite sunset, a perfect campsite, or time spent mesmerized by a waterfall. My trip along the Selway River Trail with my stalwart backpacking companion Justin had the amusing distinction of actually beginning at a Paradise. The Paradise boat launch and trailhead in the Bitterroot National Forest in a remote corner of Idaho, to be exact. From here we would follow the Selway River downstream for approximately 50 miles and pass through some of the most remote country in the Lower 48...
Read more at:
www.trailgroove.com/issue29.html?autoflip=41
