Where would your dream destination for outdoor adventure be?
Many people around the world would say you live in one of those destinations.

I would love to hike up to BASE CAMP of Mt. Everest. Just to see the beautiful mountain looming overhead and contemplate what all those brave souls did before their final ascent...
Then, hiking back down, see the sherpas, temples, and maybe even see a YAK and post that wooly mammoth's picture right here!![8D]

OK, who's next?

On a side note, let's all rip out out CAPS lOCK key and mail it
to BILL GATES...


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May your trails be crooked, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing views ! Edward Abbey

Ak-Su Valley in Kyrghizstan
Hampi in India
Dronning Maud Land Antarctica
Tasermuit Fjord Greenland
Sam Ford Fjord Baffin
Weasel Valley Baffin
Cirque of the Unclimbables NWT
Japanese Alps
Jobongsong S. Korea
Yangshou China
Lofoten Islands Norway
Torres del Paine Chile
Garwhal Himalaya
Arapiles
.... and Newfoundland

I am a lucky dreamer... all of my dream destinations are in BC, although I might pry myself out of this province to see the Alberta badlands or to nip up to the far north.

What a homebody!

Excluding of course your own neck of the woods there, RM, it is still difficult to have just one:

Baltoro/Biafo trenches, Pakistani Karakorum
Ennedi Plateau, Chad Sahara
Southern Patagonia (Paine/Fitzroy/Navarino)
Western Chang Tang, Tibet
Tassili N'Ajjer, Southern Algeria
Jordanian slot canyons
Reunion
Kanchenjunga area, E. Nepal
Nahanni Canyons

and so on...

Zion.

Both of them.

First, here is a solution to the CAPS LOCK:

http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuf...ble_caps_lock/

As far as destinations, anywhere already mentioned plus maybe Machu Picchu (sp?)


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"Heaven is under our feet is well as over our heads" Thoreau

To give you guys a little perspective, this South Carolina piedmont-er (almost flatland) wishes she could go to B.C. The scenery that ya'll see every time out looks awesome to me.

I'd also like to see:

Yellowstone National Park
The Grand Canyon
Yosemite

Cirque of the unclimbables and Patagonia.

Not counting all of the dream destinations I have already been lucky enough to visit (which is a lot) I pick in no particular order

High Atlas - Sahara Desert Morocco
Galapagos Islands (diving)
Cocos Island, Costa Rica (schooling hammerheads)
Cirque of the Unclimables
Torres del Paine
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Annapurna Sanctuary
Tchaikazan River Valley, BC

Kayaking Alaska is the biggest one I'd like to do.

Everest has always been something I've wanted to do, but I'm no where enar the physical condition to do it (yes I'm young, but I'm lazy...). I graduate this summer, and at the end of it, I'm going travelling around Asia (where I grew up) and was seriouls y thinking of doing an Everest base camp trip, I found a place that will do a 22 day trip from Kathmandu for $2200-$2500 by camping and hoteling (but more basic hotels). This is just one of the operators I found in my searhces: http://www.trekholidays.com/trip-details.cfm?TripID=99

Slightly unrelated to "hiking" but I've always thought it could be a realyl whicked trip to drive all the way from Alaska to Florida, but drive south to Vancouver, then accross Canada to the Maritimes, and then South to Florida, then either drive home again, or sell the car and fly.

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Live to fish,
Fish to live...

Spudcote

I came to Calgary precisely because I find it the best base for what I enjoy most in the outdoors. I've travelled a lot and certainly enjoyed exotic ecosystems, cultures, mountains, islands and so....but nowhere beats western Canada.

I'm not a fan of 'destinations' as much as I used to be. I actually prefer returning to familiar special places. I like the the summer and winter...the mountain, boreal forest, aspen forest and ESPECIALLY the badland ecology. And all of this availabe at our doorstep without a passport, airport waits, etc. ..and at almost no cost. I enjoy no hastle...no complication destinies.

Outside of westen Canada my favorite destination is still the American Southwest. Especially the various canyon topographies of Utah. There's a hundred new hiking experiences waiting for me in the Grand Staircase area. I like the free feeling and 'space' and openess but at the same time the rich ecology.

I agree with Screeclimber,

I live in Lethbridge which is under two hours from Waterton NP and 2 hours from Writing On Stone. I have a plentiful amount of explorations to carry out and there are many trails I have yet to attempt or conquer.

One of my various attempted conquests is Red Rock Canyon. I've been ten kilometers down the trail, but that's as far as I've ever managed to get. I'd like to do all 22, with proper gear and companionship. Every attempt has been foiled either by weather or the injury of companions (or mere exhaustion). Sure, it might be risky to do a dayhike through unknown territory alone, but it's sure looking like the best way.

As for a dream destination, I'm just waiting for a chance to go to the American southwest. I've been to Utah and Arizona and have fallen in love with the desert. Fortunately, so has my niece and some day we might take a trip down there.

Thomas

Oh my HECK.

Yukon Territories.

I'd need to be a multi milionaire and live to be a healthy 3000 years or so,to really take it all in.
Destinations? anything that is eye candy without crowds,from my backyard to overseas...