Just curious about peoples trips and how long they go out. I am fairly new to posting here so looking forward to the responses.

Personal long is 12 days without coming in average around 8-9.

8-11 days for us. Most at 10-11 days.

Average trip is 6-7 days. Longest trip was Two weeks. Shortest trip was 23 hours.

Longest is 2 weeks, average is 7 days

Trips = 32 Longest = 22 days Average = 8.5

Neil

Average 7 days, longest 2 weeks.

Our trips are generally 4-5 days - it's hard for us to take enough time to do a longer trip, but I'd love to go 10-15 days or more.

quote BuckFlicks: "Our trips are generally 4-5 days - it's hard for us to take enough time to do a longer trip, but I'd love to go 10-15 days or more."

Me too, tough to get off much more than a week and impossible for me to get more than 13 days in a row unless I quit my job. Since it's 1000 miles each way, that eats up 4 days now. I used to do the trip in a single day, but I was younger then.

Longest trip was my first, and it was 9-10?

longest trip was 18 days involving 2 countries.
average is 7-10 days.

I keep inching up.........started out around 9 or 10 and now its usually 20+. I find it takes me about 4 or 5 days to get into the swing of things and 9 or 10 to start to really decompress. After 20 or so days I am thinking about getting out but still not in a real hurry. That 24 to 26 day time frame is about right for me and I would be surprised if I did anything longer but who knows? Waiting for a few pals to retire, who can go for 20+ days?

Longest: 5 weeks
Shortest: Two nights

Average these days is about a week.

BW trips with scouts 7 day-6 nites on the water. Then add a day up and day back so you are talking 9 days.
My wife and I went to Alaska from NE wi this summer in an old RV visiting our son first in CDL Idaho....40 days....a lot of driving...

dr bob

quote mastertangler: "I keep inching up.........started out around 9 or 10 and now its usually 20+. I find it takes me about 4 or 5 days to get into the swing of things and 9 or 10 to start to really decompress. After 20 or so days I am thinking about getting out but still not in a real hurry. That 24 to 26 day time frame is about right for me and I would be surprised if I did anything longer but who knows? Waiting for a few pals to retire, who can go for 20+ days?

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I am curious if you are self employed, retired or a teacher. Hard for most to get that type of time off. I am a teacher so I have summer flexibility to a point, but at the same time in my 15 years of teaching I have never taken a summer off to make ends meet.

8 nights longest------7 average trip.

I'm jealous,,,,longest trip was 8 days/7 nights in the BWCA, 1 more night traveling each way.

Longest 8 days
Shortest 30 hours

Average is 4-5 days. Hubby - my main tripping partner - prefers shorter. 8 days is about his limit. I'd love to stay longer but I try to make up for it by planning multiple trips per year of varying lengths.

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quote mastertangler: "I keep inching up.........started out around 9 or 10 and now its usually 20+. I find it takes me about 4 or 5 days to get into the swing of things and 9 or 10 to start to really decompress. After 20 or so days I am thinking about getting out but still not in a real hurry. That 24 to 26 day time frame is about right for me and I would be surprised if I did anything longer but who knows? Waiting for a few pals to retire, who can go for 20+ days?


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I am curious if you are self employed, retired or a teacher. Hard for most to get that type of time off. I am a teacher so I have summer flexibility to a point, but at the same time in my 15 years of teaching I have never taken a summer off to make ends meet.
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Yes I am president and CEO of a company.................. I am also the janitor, handyman, salesman, manufacturer and gopher ;-)

All I can say is be careful what you ask for. Last year I worked from Sept to May without a single solitary day off. Yep, that includes weekends. Crazy town for sure! So I take my time off in one big chunk. Works for me, but I have to bribe my wife to go along with it.

Ten is longest; usually six.

quote overthehill: "Ten is longest; usually six."

Our trips have always been the same. Leave Missouri later Friday after work, timing our arrival in Ely or Grand Marais to pickup our permit and head to the EP as early as possible in Saturday.

Trips always end the following Saturday afternoon for the drive home. This gives us Sunday to unpack, cleanup and rest before heading back to work on Monday.

Longest was 10 days usually around 7.

Average: 12-14 (Quetico). Longest: 41 days (Canadian Arctic)

Our first trip was 10 days. usually 7 to 8. I like 8 days the best.

Eight days longest, 7 days average.
However, if you add in my 4,000 mile roundtrip driving time my trips have been two weeks.

Lessee, Beav has trips ranging from about 90 hours (Border Route) to, what, 90 plus days? (Alaska). That'll make for a large average but also a whopping standard deviation....

Longest =2 weeks, avg. =10 days