We closed out 200 miles on the John Muir Trail yesterday at Whitney Portal.  The trip was awesome and I’ll be putting together a video in the upcoming weeks.  I posted a ton of pictures below but no detail.  At a high level:  It rained the first two days but after that only sunshine;  we met and hiked with another hiker named Chris (trail name: Grover) – he is a 5x Appalachian Trail thru hiker; there was some snow that made pass crossing interesting; the streams were swollen but passable; CW did great but got his butt kicked on a few of the longer days; we got our permit the morning we got there; we spent 14 days and 13 nights on the trail…. lots more in the video.

A preview in no particular order:

  

Tomorrow I head back to the John Muir Trail with my friend CW.  We are starting at Tuolumne Meadows and exiting Mt Whitney 12 days later.  I built in 3 days buffer time because we need to wait in line at the ranger station for a permit.

We are trying something new to manage the logistics.  This year we are flying to Vegas, driving to Whitney Portal, dropping the car, hitching to Lone Pine, taking the bus from Lone Pine to Mammoth, staying a night in Mammoth, and taking YARTs to Tuolumne.

If you want to follow our progress, you can use the Link to my SPOT below – note it will say nothing until we get to California: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0179jVuAGURK27cN8Flk29Ad2cpyINpEs