I mixed up our thread creator with the hiker I was thinking about!
@wanna_be How was January in the White Mountains?
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@EmilyQ @twojarslave
I didn’t go 
. My partner backed out and I decided it was too dangerous to go alone. So now I’ve got a flight voucher just burning a hole in my pocket!! Been thinking about death valley
That was probably smart. We had a cold January too. First noreaster is on deck for tomorrow as well. The only place I’ll be hiking this weekend is to the kitchen.
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Death Valley was fun and dusty. Bryce Canyon and Zion are 2 places we want to revisit at some point.
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I was thinking Death Valley because it would be kinda warm ish in February during the day.
I miss the sun trying to kill me
We went late October and it was a nice dry 29oC. So it maybe a great place for winter hiking with out needing the snow shoes. 
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Go to Puerto Rico. Lots of cool mountain and jungle adventures to get into there (go with guides), and it will actually be warm, not just kinda sorta warm.
I don’t have a passport. Which is dumb I know. I was gonna get one and then Covid happened and then all the weird travel rules and stuff so I just haven’t got back to getting one
Puerto Rico is the USA…
No passport needed.
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I am getting my passport. Was pretty easy. That being said, you don’t need a passport for Puerto Rico.
Edit: Californiagrown beat me too it.
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I would like to point out I have publicly stated on here I am not smart, and there is a reason I work outside 
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Well. That settles it. Gonna see what porta reeka has to offer to slow individuals like myself
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I’d like to visit Puerto Rico, and other South American / Central American countries. Thinking I might want to retire early somewhere warm and cheap. Preferably somewhere with people who are small and I can be a giant viking. It’s my only viable path towards being big lol.
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I’ve actually thought about doing something similar. We’ve had a couple guys retire here after 20 and move to tropical islands and continue doing the same work for them.
I’m also on board with the tiny people so I am artificially huge
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Don’t go to the Netherlands lol.
I am thinking, I’d pick up some sort of gig to keep me busy, but something very laid back. I am pretty good with cars. Maybe get some tech college classes and work out of my tropical garage.
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@wanna_be I was reading some trail reports for the exact hike you were planning on, lots of folks saying they were starting their days at -14 before even clearing the tree line haha. A solo trip would’ve been pretty rugged.
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I was just worried about white out conditions and being solo. I’d hate to walk off a cliff
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The White Mountains in winter are no joke at all. That’s part of the draw, I suppose, but Puerto Rico sounds a lot more enjoyable right now.
I first visited San Juan when I was about 9 years old. Dad bought me a machete with a cool leather sheath.
Back then getting your boy his first machete was called good parenting. Now it gets you a visit from CPS.
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I got my first machete from my Grandpa. Was some sort of military surplus model. Still remember how excited I was about it.
I also had a collection of probably 50 different knives hidden around my room in case of an intruder.
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I got whatever the San Juan special was, which seemed fairly decent. It was a wood handle and the sheath had a lot of cool Puerto Rican leatherworking on it.
It actually got used on a ton of my childhood hikes in the woods. Not because I needed to machete my way through brush and broadleaf woodland, but because I could.
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