Wind Lakes; Solo Backpacking in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness, Idaho
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- A two-day solo backpacking trip in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness of central Idaho to Wind Lakes, Grave Peak, and Jerry Johnson Hot Springs. Late June, 2019
Miles: 34
Elevation gained (and lost) 5600ft.
Total Pack weight: 22 lbs.
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You don't get scared staying out there or etc
I once drove from VA upto Missoula Montana, went across US12 into Idaho Lolol Summit and Selway wilderness
Around where u are kinda .. US 12 down there somewhere.
It was so awesome I was all alone in my GTI
I never went west of Kentucky. One can only imagine how exciting it was to drive thru here.
You do good work! Be safe and enjoy yourself.
Hey Eric, thanks so much for your comments! It is indeed an awesome area and I'm glad you had the opportunity to experience it. Even just driving highway 12 is worth the trip.
Great video! Thanks for posting, I was looking at doing this same route
Glad it was helpful! It's a fun hike, depending on one's route-finding abilities. ;-)
Damn I can't wait to move there! I break out Google maps and lust after Idaho every day haha
There's certainly no lack of territory to explore!
Don’t move here you dick
@@blackout6967 are you gay? Do you have unresolved anger issues? I'm definitely moving there and we're going to be best buddies!
Dan....I went over to Grave peak from Elk Summit a few years back. I'm awfully partial to the S-B wilderness area.
Not sure why YT never auto suggested one of your videos until last week. I certainly follow 5 or 6 other hiking/camping/backpacking channels. Oddly enough, I was discussing fear and anxiety while backpacking in Grizzly country (esp solo) with a good friend of mine who is heading to greater Yellowstone area for a fishing trip this summer. He is overly concerned. Anyway, that night I turned on my laptop and YT was suggesting your video on overcoming anxiety on the trail. Hard to believe some AI isn't listening to my private conversations. Regardless, I checked out your channel and have really enjoyed a number of your postings. I'll be doing the Pintlers in August and then over to S-B for two weeks. Probably crawl down the Magruder in my 4wd Dodge and hang out at Poet Creek for a week with a couple of 1-2 night backpacking trips from that base camp. Then out and around to Kooskia and take 12 to Powell and on up to Elk Summit for similar camping and backpacking.
I'll comment on other videos as I watch them. Thanks for having me aboard.
Tom
Hey Tom, I sure don't understand the ways of the YT algorithm either, but very glad it (eventually) helped you find me! Sounds like some great trip plans; I've always wanted to drive the Magruder Corridor. Something very compelling about the remoteness of it. I've been to Paradise RS in the east and my family used to go camping in Dixie from the west, so someday I'll have to connect the dots! See you out there!!
That's some pretty country, thanks for sharing your outing.
You're very welcome Adam. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
man this place is incredible.
Thanks! Great place for both beauty and solitude.
Great hike so early in the year...awesome destination...reckon that shoe was good luck all around!...atb...woods
I reckon you're right. Thanks for watching!
This looks like such an amazing area! Worth keeping in the back of my head for future exploring
Thanks Amy! Kind of you to watch and comment. The Selway Bitterroot and adjacent Frank Church Wildernesses are truly vast and easy to go for days without seeing another person.
@@ShastaBubba Sounds great to me! Probably similar to The Bob Marshall Wilderness! I worked in there for a bit and rarely saw backpackers!
@@AmyRoutt Yes, it's similar, but fewer outfitters, or so it seems to me. Glad to hear you know the area. Since I live in NW Montana, most of my hiking is in the Bob (and GNP) and I was wanting to offer hike suggestions there for you, but no need now I know.
@@ShastaBubba hahaha! I need to go back though. I love that area.
Did you see any snakes....? Them trails need trimmed.
You carry bear spray ..?
You're very brave .
The only snakes of concern in ID are rattlesnakes and they aren't very active when the temp. is below 70 degrees, so I was pretty safe on this spring hike. I do carry bear spray; although just out of habit since I usually hike in grizzly country -- only black bears in this part of ID and they pretty much just run away. You're right about the trail maintenance folks need more funds!
@@ShastaBubba btw right we’re you at there is grizzilies they discovered that about 4 years ago
Just found your channel. Great content, great place :)
Thanks so much Peter! Let me know if you have questions.
@@ShastaBubba haha I will have a lot when I am gonna plan a nice hiking trip to the US! Cheers from Greece
@@user-tn8jw3vp3b Cheers from the US. Efcharisto!
Hey Dan, I came across this video of you in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness area. When you hike here do you feel as remote and isolated from civilization as you do in the Bob Marshall ? Does the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness have the same thick and voluminous forests as the Bob?
Personally, I find the S-B Wilderness to have a more remote feeling because I tend to see fewer people. Also, denser forest due to less big fires than the Bob (don't know whether that's objectively true, just personal experience).
When is your big trip? Should be any week now, I thought.
@@ShastaBubba My plans changed for this year due to the heat and smoke in the Bob Marshall area during the first week of August. The people I was going with cancelled and I didn't want to go to the Bob for a long period by myself. Instead I went hiking in Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone for five weeks by myself. I had a great time but those are very different experiences than going into the wilderness. ( Thanks for asking )
@@newlifeeveryday1821 Teton and Yellowstone were great experiences as well, I imagine. Glad you were able to get out there somewhere!