High Sierra Cabin Trips...are guides worth the cost?

[homeranch]

Personally, I cannot imagine using a guide for the HSC, and I have been a mountain guide for many years. If you want to know the flora and fauna and geology of the area there are great books.

I think the joy of making discoveries on your own out weigh the benefits of a guide on the HSC route.

The trails themselves are not difficult or technical, they are well marked and you may find your self part of a crowd moving from camp to camp.

The camps are certainly a way for newbies, or perhaps the elderly to enjoy the high country, but they are not an experience requiring a guide.

2400 would get you a number of fine pack llamas!