Adventuring LGBTQ+ Outdoors Club

Canyons and Slickrock: Hiking Escalante and Capitol Reef May 3-10, 2025

RSVP Prerequisites
(1) At the time of RSVP, participants must have already completed at least five Adventuring events (hikes and/or social gatherings) in the past year

(2) Must be fit enough for moderately strenuous hiking. We will have one day of 15 miles, mostly level, and other days could be up to 5-10 miles with moderate (maybe a 1,000' or two) elevation gain.

(3) A $200 deposit will be required to secure your spot on the trip

Trip Details
We’ll spend six days hiking the stunning scenery of the gorgeous heart of "canyon country", in this remote and uncrowded part of Utah. Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument (where we'll spend four days) spans a vast landscape full of beautiful canyons of every size, shape and color, from twisting slot canyons to big river canyons. Capitol Reef National Park (two days) is an amazing assemblage of multicolored domes, ridges and cliffs of sandstone ("slickrock").

We’ll all stay in a big house together, sharing the cooking and kitchen duty, and riding to our hikes each day in the group cars. We’ll spend four nights in Escalante, UT and three in Teasdale, UT (near Capitol Reef). Couples will have their own rooms. Singles will have their own beds, which may be in shared rooms, sometimes in bunks.

Participants will share equally in the cost of the lodging, rental cars and gas, shared food and drink, and any other group costs. Estimated at $800-1,000 each, all-in, for the week, plus participants will be responsible for their own travel costs to Salt Lake City and back.

Limited to 9-12 participants

Adventuring Pre-Summer Picnic
Saturday May 17, 2025
11 am – 3 pm

Location

Rock Creek Park at Picnic Grove #1
2401 Tilden St NW, Washington, DC
(just off of Beach Drive and across the road from Pierce Mill)

Activities

Join us for Adventuring’s first ever PRE-Summer Picnic! We've decided it's just too hot in late July for picnics, so we're moving this annual event to May.

This is a great place for newcomers to meet. For those interested, there will be an optional hike.

Who Can Attend

All members! Doesn’t matter if you haven’t hiked with us before, or have only attended a few events – come get to know us, and tell us what you’d like to see with Adventuring.

Cost

$10 per person

What to contribute

• A savory side dish or yummy dessert
• If you have a particular item in mind – bring it!
• If you prefer guidance, email us and we'll assign you an item: adventuringlgbtq@gmail.com
• Adventuring provides hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, chips, dips, water, soda, and ice

RSVP Deadline

Please RSVP via Meetup by 5 pm on Wednesday, May 14

Directions

• Driving/biking: enter ‘Rock Creek Park Site 001’ into Google Maps
• For those who prefer narrative directions:
From Connecticut Ave/Tilden Street: As soon as Tilden changes from a divided to undivided road, take a right into the parking lot
From Mt Pleasant/Park Road: After crossing the bridge over Rock Creek, pass Pierce Mill on your right, then turn left into the parking lot
Via Red Line: Once at either Van Ness or Cleveland Park station, it’s about a 20-minute hike to the grove using either Tilden Street or the Melvin Hazen Trail

Hiking the Northern Rockies (Glacier/Waterton Lakes): August 2 - 9, 2025

RSVP Prerequisites
(1) At the time of RSVP, participants must have already completed at least five Adventuring events (hikes and/or social gatherings) in the past year

(2) Must be fit enough for moderately strenuous hiking (our hikes could range up to 8-14 miles, with several thousand feet of elevation gain)

(3) A $200 deposit will be required to secure your spot on the trip

Trip Details
The mountain scenery of Glacier/Waterton Lakes is about as majestic as you're ever going to see. We'll be straddling the continental divide up at the Canadian border, hiking and staying on both sides of the border. The two national parks are contiguous. We'll have six days of hiking through forests, meadows, and mountains, along rushing streams to waterfalls, alpine lakes, and glaciers, with wildflowers and hopefully lots of wildlife, including grizzly bears, preferably at a distance.

We’ll all stay in a big house together, sharing the cooking and kitchen duty, and riding to our hikes each day in the group cars. We’ll spend three nights in Kalispell, MT (access to west side of Glacier) and four in Mountain View, Alberta (access to east side of Glacier and Waterton Lakes). Couples will have their own rooms. Singles will have their own beds, which may be in shared rooms, sometimes in bunks.

Participants will share equally in the cost of the lodging, the rental cars and gas, the shared groceries and beverages, and any other group costs. Estimated at $1,000-1,300 each, all-in, for the week, plus participants will be responsible for their own travel costs to Kalispell and back.

Limited to 9-12 participants. You must have a passport for the border crossings.