I had the same experience as Frank when trying right at 7am.? After a couple of tries I got through and secured my permit.? I rechecked afterwards at about 7:10 and they were all gone for Bishop Pass, which is what I got.
My experience has been that there is no need to reload the web
page to update the availability. I log in, set up the permit
parameters and then use the "next/prev 5 day" buttons to move back
and forth in days until the availability shows for the day. I also
use the filter option to identify my desired trailhead so I don't
have to scroll down the trailhead list. I'm using Chrome on a PC.
I have had notices pop up that the system is too busy. I closed
these boxes and re-selected the trailhead again and finally got
through after a couple of tries.
Frank
On 2/18/2022 7:23 AM, ravi_jmt2013
wrote:
As many others have reported, the reservations for Inyo this year
are super-competitive like I have never seen before. One issue I
had is that the system did not make the August 18 permits
available immediately at 7:00 am pacific, which is precisely when
I submitted the search query.? So I had to do so again which cost
me around 10-15 seconds. At that time, it appeared that a lot of
permits were still available but when I clicked on my choice of
Duck Pass, all of the permits were gone!
I didn't expect that, and there were two permits left for
Cottonwood Pass, so I grabbed one since I wanted to make sure I
got *something* even though I don't really want to start
northbound this year.?
After completing the reservation for Cottonwood Pass, I checked
overall availability around 7:10 am, and noticed that a Red Cones
permit was now available so I grabbed that one and canceled the
Cottonwood Pass permit. This way I can start from Mammoth as I had
planned, although from a somewhat less desirable start (I wanted
to see Duck Lake).
As of right now, there is still one Cottonwood Pass permit
(probably the one I cancelled), two Cottonwood Lakes permits, nine
Fish Creek permits, two permits for JMT South of Devil's Postpone,
five River Trail permits, and that's about it for the popular
entry points.
Anyway, just wanted to describe my experience in case it is
helpful for others.? My advice is to give the system five seconds
or so after 7:00 am pacific since the inventory doesn't seem to be
released at 7 on the dot.? And be sure to check about 15 minutes
later since some people will abandon their carts and permits may
go back into the inventory.
This is way more stressful than it used to be!
--
Frank
