The last time that I really did it upright was 1995. My wife and I took two months off and went back to Minnesota where I'm from. I wanted to canoe the Wildernest area between Minnesota and Canada. My wife chickened out at the last minute and stayed with one of my brothers and his wife in Duluth but I spent a great 29 days in the wilds of northern Minn. and southern Canada portaging from lake to lake, (I had my choice of thousands), and never saw another human being for 28 of those days. Since then I generally have my wife drop me off up in the local mountains and pick me up at the end of the week-end or the end of the week depending on how much time I have. I really don't know if this qualifies as hiking but...

Chris.