Dream a little dream

[Billy]

You've just been given $10,000.
You've just been given 4 weeks of paid vacation.
Within one year, you have to spend all that money and all that time on your dream hiking/backpacking/paddling trip.

Where are you going?

I choose backpacking one week in the Yellowstone/Tetons area, one week in Banff, and one week in Jasper. Fourth week TBD.

 

[TMax]

Denali here I Come!!

 

[roadtripper]

Hut-to-Hut throughout France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy!

 

[Tom Rankin]

Hut-to-Hut throughout France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy!

As John Denver would have said:

"Colorado Rocky Mountain High!"

Views and Brews Colorado!

 

[sierra]

I would rent an RV drive to the Sierras's and climb all 14 of the 14ers in that month. Whatever money was left, Id donate on my way out.

 

[Puma concolor]

Easy, easy, easy. Another vote for Denali!

 

[Trainwreck]

St. John, USVI

 

[The Unstrung Harp]

Three weeks of conditioning and one week in the Dolomites! <3

 

[Abster]

The Karakoram if it was open to Westerners, if not than Nepal.

 

[MikePS]

Interesting, have to say Denali is the dream, but could really take Billy's trip with the tbd being a stop in Glacier. Where do I sign up

 

[Taconic]

4 weeks wouldn't be enough for a dream trip, so I'd use it to travel to remote/expensive places courtesy of the 10K.

I'd devote two weeks to a trip into the Arctic Cordillera (including the Torngats,) and two weeks to a trip into Alaska (with at least 5 days in the Aleutians.)

Though I'd honestly be happy if I could somehow manage to make it back to Montana for a couple of weeks in the next few years.

 

[Bob]

4 weeks in Amsterdam...

 

[J.Dub]

Ama Dablam.

(Damn, that mountain is right purty, ain't it...?)

 

[Chip]

On my own I think I'd try to get 2 or 3 of the more doable 7 Summits. With my wife, we'd like to do the approach to Everest Base Camp via the guided/sherpa trek.

 

[Adk_dib]

Grand tetons to yellowstone to glacier to rainier to the cascades to yosemitee!!

 

[Ed'n Lauky]

No question, no hesitation, the French Alps.

 

[Mike P.]

I'm dreaming I need another zero on the total:

If my dream has an increase in my skills, Nepal

If my dream has anywhere in the world: Sierra for 10 days, 10 days on a South American peak that's a walk up/basic snow ice trip & then Italy, Austria & Baveria for ten days in huts as their huts come with a full menu, beer & wine (I need a couple of extra days too)

If domestic, Sierra, Yellowstone Tetons, Olympics & Cascades.

 

[DreamFarmer]

Somebody say Dream ?

I'd work on my 111 list. That would be dreamy enough for me !
There's a lot of beauty right here I've yet to see.

 

[timmus]

Iceland or New Zealand, depending on what season we are.

I would probably have to eat Ramen Noodles for a month, but that's fine. The further you are from home, the better they taste.

 

[Jay H]

Denali here I Come!!

Oh no, there goes the neighborhood!!!

$10k (check) 16 weeks severance...

4 weeks vacation (check) (unemployed, I've got a lot more than 4 weeks!)

A gazillion left of principal in my mortgage.. uh Oh...



Jay