>>268755>>268823Agreed with this, I don't want to make any suppositions about what OPs experience or personality/skills/attitude is like....... but here's what I thought
>Oh neat, someone wants to do some off-trail >Cool, they've got a nice little park to try their hands at! >Open maps >Looks good, starting point at a trailhead, walk back home and then I realized this was a 60 mile walk over mountains, through valleys, and across rivers in one of Americas greatest wildernesses, in a park conjoined with Yosemite. And OP only goes on family/friend camping trips.
OP, most people are lucky to do 20 miles a day on nice, smooth, well maintained trails. And by most people, I mean the small contingent of people capable of doing 20 miles in a day. (It's not unrealistic, I know- just not your average joe tier day hike)
You're asking to do 3 times that alone with little to no experience. The fact that you're asking the general question "Wut do I bring dats gud?" speaks volumes about your abilities in this field and I think unless you've seriously led us astray with your posts as to your experience, you should re-evaluate your trip. I went through the same thing with climbing/mountaineering, being all "I'll just work hard, make lots of money, buy the stuff and run off to live in the hills!" without realizing my knowledge of climbing was toddler tier, I wouldn't survive 20 minutes in those conditions letalone for months at a time without back up or experience, and that I wanted to jump right into the hardest, most demanding and dangerous manifestations of climbing.
All that being said, by reducing my goals down to more humanly standards and stretching out my timeframe by realizing life isn't a single experience, but a collaboration of all your previous ones built upon eachother, that I'm a shit-load closer to my final goal than I ever was by just aspiring to do so..... Instead of having my head in the clouds, I've got it on the ground where I can make progress.
