daveg
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Post by daveg on Nov 12, 2015 19:56:14 GMT -8
HSF and markskor -- sounds like sage advice. Reminds me of a caution given to sailors -- The most dangerous thing about going cruising on a sailboat is a schedule.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Nov 13, 2015 14:32:26 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2015 10:18:05 GMT -8
It's now 31 years since I hiked JMT. When I read all the rules and regulations now in place, I think of the Lyrics...Do this, don't do that, can't you read the signs. Glad
In '84 we walked up on a Saturday morning in mid-August, the ranger would have allowed us to start then but preferred we leave the next day. We needed to relocate my truck to Whitney Portal so that worked out just fine.
The only camp sites where we were not the only campers were the first night at Lyell canyon and the last night at Trail Camp. Otherwise, we camped where we wanted with no adjoining neighbors. The night time activity was hanging our food sacks and the morning had to figure out how to get them down. Met a few hikers who had bears steal their food, but they never bothered us. We did the 3 week trip with a single re-supply at Edison Lake. Mailed a couple of buckets there.
We had two subtitles for our trip: I was a pack mule on the Sierra Express...and We climbed a bunch of giant rock piles. Weather wise we only had one day where it rained. That trip taught me the value of good gear...I'm pretty sure I replaced 100% of everything I wore or carried on that trip before the next trip..except for a home-made bong.
Still this trip ranks as my all time favorite. Oh to be young and carefree again.
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daveg
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Post by daveg on Nov 16, 2015 20:57:21 GMT -8
FWIW, I discovered free downloadable and printable PCT maps online that include Section H (scroll down) -- the section of the PCT from Crabtree Meadow to Tuolumne Meadows (plus maps of the JMT from the PCT to Whitney Portal and Yosemite Valley). Question about permits. I gather that if I wanted to hike the entire JMT, I would apply for a permit starting from Happy Isles or Whitney Portal. But what if I was willing to settle for hiking Section H of PCT between Tuolumne Meadows to Crabtree Meadow. Would it be easier to get a permit to hike the PCT? Or wouldn't it make a difference since most of that section is also the JMT. |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Nov 16, 2015 21:39:40 GMT -8
No difference since there's no permit for either "the JMT" OR "the PCT" , just Wilderness permits for overnight travel in Wilderness with quotas administered specific to the proposed entry trailhead while for the exit over Donohue Pass Yosemite also applies an exit quota of 40 (this past year) per day spread amongst the listed entry trail heads.
So a start at Lyell Canyon heading out of the park over Donohue is a start at Lyell Canyon with an exit out of the park over Donohue subject to the entry quota of Lyell Canuon and its respective portion of the Donohue Pass exit quota.
Take a look at the permit application and it will be clearer as the information needed pretty much lays out the skeleton of the issue..
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