Favorite backpacking destinations

In My Humble Opinion
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Okay, first day of spring or thereabouts, so here’s a topic that’s somewhat thematic:

What’s your favorite place to backpack or hike?

Personally, being a native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I have to put in a plug for the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Check out some photos here:
http://members.aol.com/CMorHiker3/backpack/PictRocksPhotos.html

Great place. Stays relatively cool, not many bugs, fantastic scenery, only real gripe is that hiking through sandy terrain is something of a pain.

[Edited by Czarcasm on 03-20-2001 at 11:39 PM]

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Ugh. Miss one little bracket and whaddaya get? Oh, the humanity…

http://members.aol.com/CMorHiker3/backpack/PictRocksPhotos.html

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I’ll put in another vote for Pictured Rocks. I have great memories of a solo camping trip to Grand Island, too. Oh Hell, let’s just say the UP in general. I get lots of funny looks when I tell all the people in Colorado (where I currently live) that the hiking/skiing/etc. is better in the UP than it is in Colorado, but for some of us, it is.

Colorado is gorgeous - you get beautiful vistas, lovely mountains, etc. etc. But there’s one thing that always spoils it for me - there’s too many damn people out here! Unless you drive to the boonies, then hike in past the reasonable day-hike line, you’re hiking in a crowd. Plus, there’s all the rules/regulations/etc. that have to be enforced when a spot is so popular. Give me the UP any day, where you can hike naked and never worry about running into anyone else.