High Sierra Topix

Tom,
Hi! Thanks for the welcome! Wow, I'm really happy to hear that you recovered from that! Thank you for sharing - it really helps to hear these things. It reminds me that I can get back to what I was doing before, with patience and some adapting. The patience part has been not so fun with skiing though. I really want to be ripping down the slopes again, but with the nerve damage in the legs and just being queasy about taking a tumble and tweaking my back, I'm trying to remember that there's always next year. I've decided to stick to skinning around the backcountry the rest of the season to get some strength back and get use to skis on my feet again. I can't complain too much because nature therapy is the best and I'm back on skis again... and soon to be backpacking!

It's definitely the latter... I'm a Cubbie. My background is a mix of aerospace and astronomy.

Tiff

Well I guess this includes me too.. I've been on here a few years reading and learning even more about the places I love. My name is William, I am 44 years old and I have been camping and exploring the central & southern Sierra since I was a kid. I am lucky to have parents that camped and hiked.
I did my first backpacking trip when I was 17. I was hooked! I live in Visalia, about 30+/- miles from SeKi. I do about 10 backpacking trips per year and about 5 car camping trips per year.
So anyways, that's my story.

Bump

Hi guys, new to the forum. Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm an east coast kid whose gonna be out in the Sierras from 5/17-5/31. I plan on hiking the JMT, or most of it starting from Yosemite on the 18th. I'm excited to see your mountains, and will surely have plenty of questions these last two weeks!

Oh, and hopefully a sweet report in about 5 weeks

Hi Duxbait,

Welcome to HST! Share your experience on the JMT with your fellow HST members
when you get back please.

Duxbait,

That is a pretty tough trip for that time of year, even if it is a low snow year. You will be dealing with snow on n. slopes above 10,000 feet! Going will be slow and potentially dangerous on steeper slopes.

Mike

The PCT hikers will have beaten a path in the snow, so doing a trail route early this year will be more feasible than doing an off-trail route. I do agree that you will be slowed down- high-stepping footprints is tedious. The PCT crowd does, however, create paths on the passes that would make them a bit safer. The Whitney Portal forum has noted that they are beginning to see the PCT hikers. You should start reading the PCT hiker journals to see what conditions they are encountering.

Hi all,
The wife and I started backpacking back in college 70's then took a few dwcades off to raise kids and deal with other life issues. Five years ago we took up backpacking again with trips to Snow Mountain Wilderness, Lost Coast and sections of the JMT. Thia year we have a week trip to Emigrant Wilderness planned for Memorial day week and I'll be doing a solo SOBO of the JMT in July. We pack light under 30lbs for a week to ten days now. I't quite a change from the old days of 50+lb hike which I certainly don't miss.

Steve,
Welcome. We all look forward to trip reports; especially me being so far away.

SteveP wrote:Hi all,
The wife and I started backpacking back in college 70's then took a few dwcades off to raise kids and deal with other life issues. Five years ago we took up backpacking again with trips to Snow Mountain Wilderness, Lost Coast and sections of the JMT. Thia year we have a week trip to Emigrant Wilderness planned for Memorial day week and I'll be doing a solo SOBO of the JMT in July. We pack light under 30lbs for a week to ten days now. I't quite a change from the old days of 50+lb hike which I certainly don't miss.

Welcome Steve,

We took a hiatus for child raising too and Emigrant is one of my favorite places. Glad to have you on the forum.

Tom