There are annual group spreadsheets where members of all the major JMT groups share their trip plans (dates, entry and exit trailhead, contact info if willing).
They allow you to know who you might encounter along the way. Also can be used to ask for hiking partners. Click on access the group spreadsheets for SoBo and NoBo hikes. It is hard every year to get enough entries at first to make the sheets useful. But if you add yours, you will encourage others to add theirs and it will become useful to you and others. Revisit both SoBo and NoBo versions later to see who you might encounter. (Most of the hikers hiking into your traffic and some of those headed in your direction.) While the NoBo and SoBo sheets can help find?and to find possible candidates to share resources, an even better set of cross-group spreadsheets?to request or offer to share packers, shuttles, rides, bearcans etc, or to arrange car swaps so that your car is left at your exit trailhead, see? Please email me -- JohnLadd@...?-- if any of these links are broken. Hard for me to test since I may have access rights that others do not. Thanks! -- John Curran Ladd 1616 Castro Street San Francisco, CA? 94114-3707 415-648-9279 |