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My Attempt at Ultra-Light Backpacking
Packraft ready and T minus 11 days
T minus 3 days. Food cacheing road trip.
The food and water cacheing shenanigans continue. T minus 2 days.
Hayduke Route day 1: A flip flopping marathon (26.2 miles in 11 hours)
Hayduke Route day 2: Devil’s Garden to mile zero. 7 miles today/ 33.2 total
Hayduke Route 3rd day: 17.5 mile float via packraft down the Colorado River.
Hayduke Route 5th Day: 18.6 River Miles/88.3 miles total. Cloudy Float Day
Hayduke Route 6th day: 15 mile paddle day/103 miles total. Early morning squall and 20mph headwinds.
Hayduke Route 9th day: 18.10 miles today/143.9 total. Good Bye Canyonlands. Hello Beef Basin Road
Hayduke Route 10th day: 19 miles today/ 163.9 total. Finally in Dark Canyon!
Hayduke Route 11th day: 19.5 miles/182.4 total. Dark Canyon Hydrophilia
Hayduke Route 12th day: 18 miles today/200.4 totalGood Bye Dark Canyon. Hello Hite cache
Hayduke Route 15 day (April 1, 2018): 4.5 miles/242.2 total. Hello Hanskville!
Hayduke Route 16th day: 0 miles. Hanskville Zero in full effect.
Hayduke Route 17th day: 21 miles/263.3 total. Into the Henry Mountains.
Hayduke Route 20th day: 16.3 miles/297 total. Enter Lower Muley Twist Canyon and Halls Creek.
Hayduke Route 21st day: 14 miles/311 miles total. Halls Creek Narrows Delight
Hayduke Route 22nd Day: 14 miles/325 total. Good Bye Capitol Reef. Hello Canyons of the Escalante
Hayduke Route 23 day: 15-16 miles/340 miles total. Steven’s Canyon and Coyote Gulch
Hayduke Route 24th day: 7 miles/347 total. Goodbye Coyote Gulch. Hello town of Escalante!
Hayduke Route 35th day: 20(+4) miles/510 total. Goodbye Tropic. Hello Bryce Canyon!
Hayduke Route 36th day: 20 miles/530 total. Goodbye Bryce’s Under the Rim Trail. Hello again GSENM!
Hayduke Route 37th day: 22.4 miles/553 total. White Cliffs, Grey Cliffs, and Vermillion Cliffs.
Hayduke Route 38th day: 21 miles/573 total Hello Buckskin Gulch. Hello Arizona
Hayduke Route 39th day: 29 miles today/603 total miles. Goodbye Utah! Hello Arizona!
Hayduke Route 41st day: 20 miles/623 total. From J lake to Crane Lake (cesspool) along the AZT.
Hayduke Route 42nd day: 19+6 miles/648 total. Hello Nankoweap TH!
Hayduke Route 43rd day: 18+2 miles/668 miles. Nankoweap TH to Kwagunt Creek
Hayduke Route 45th day: 18.5 miles/704 total. Goodbye Tanner Beach. Hello Hance Creek.
Hayduke Route 46th day: 18 miles/722 total. Hance Creek to Lone Tree Creek.