Finally gonna do the JMT highway this next summer!
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Finally gonna do the JMT highway this next summer!
Saw a special on the JMT when I was 12...lets see, if I don't have alzheimers too bad I would calculate that to be 1965. I was sitting on the couch watching TV with my dad and when that came on I was blown away! I decided right then that someday I would do the JMT. Of course in later years that dream was supplanted by the PCT and the CDT. And I've hiked back and forth across the JMT off trail all over the Sierra as most of you here have too I bet. But, never actually did the JMT itself. So this next Aug my honey and I are doing it! Big Grin!!!
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We'll be leaving mid Aug so will miss you Rosabella. But I'm sure we'll have fun exchanging tales afterwards!
Yes, would love to see your equip and meals lists especially BSquared!
Yes, would love to see your equip and meals lists especially BSquared!
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Re: Finally gonna do the JMT highway this next summer!
First time I did the JMT was in 1966, Boy Scouts. I must have been 12. Our pack frames were made of wood. We did it in two halves over the summer. 10 days a half. The next summer, the older Scouts, me included, repeated it in one trip - I believe in 14 days. We were all Eagle Scouts. Always went south to north. At that time it wasn't wasn't referred to as a "highway," or a "dungway." Though there were alot of people on the trail.
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Re: Finally gonna do the JMT highway this next summer!
I will be doing the highway as well...from TM to Whitney...I'm not sure what permit gods I need to pray for to get a permit out of the valley but it didn't happen. I'll be headed out starting on 8/20 so maybe we'll run into each other.
While I am not looking to the throngs...it's still beautiful scenery and I'm really looking forward to going back through Evolution Valley.
While I am not looking to the throngs...it's still beautiful scenery and I'm really looking forward to going back through Evolution Valley.
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