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Re: JMT permitting trailheads in Yosemite

 

Historically, correct me if I am wrong, Peter.? Wasn't historically the JMT from South to North?? I've done the JMT 11 times, my favorite starting point is from Kennedy Meadows South.? It's an easy permit to get, and it gives you about a week of hiking-altitude adjustment to work up to high altitudes.? It also starts at the southern border of the "High Sierra".? I find the hike easiest going South to North (I've done it equally from North to South).? Going South to North, if you are altitude adjusted, you are doing, typically a gradual up all day, and doing a strenuous "up" for a short period of mileage (the only exception is Muir Pass).? How about the others here who have done it both ways?

Getting a permit from Kennedy Meadows South (there are two Kennedy Meadows on the PCT), is incredibly easy.? It requires hiking about an extra 60 miles (rounded) to the hike.? If you have the time, it's so convenient.? My last JMT was at age 70.? I am 74 now, and hike for a month-plus in the Sierras every year now, for the last 26 years.

PS, I used to be lead moderator for the JMT Yahoo Group for 8 years.? I am still lead moderator (and founder) of?

The Sierra, per my understanding from reading Lizzy Wenk's notes (I used to edit her spreadsheet-appendix of her book for years), is that it goes from Kennedy Meadows South to Old Station CA.? The Sierra for about 100-some miles overlaps with the Cascade Mountain Range, so it's not a clear cutoff on the north end, but Old Station CA is good enough for her and hence, for me.



On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 8:35?PM Ku-Ding Tsuei via <kdtsuei=[email protected]> wrote:
There might be a psychological reason why many people choose the now established JMT route from Happy Isles to Whitney or the other direction instead.

They could ask, if I might only have one chance in the foreseeable future, which route I would choose? The most likely answer would be THE ONE.

I often told my friends living in California: Yosemite and other National Parks in CA, and JMT and many its alternatives, they all in your backyard and you may pick anyone at your anytime, go to its trailhead within one day drive.

I don't have their luxury so I picked THE ONE. If I have my next chance I will perhaps consider THE ONE first, but different direction.

Doug



在 2024 年 2月 月 18 日週日，時間：上午 4:17 ， Peter Hirst
<peter.p.hirst@...> 寫道：
I always get a little concerned when anyone suggests that the Trail is any safer or more suitable for beginners because the tread is well defined and easy to discern.? This is the last thing you want to rely on, it at all.? In the same category is the fact that it is often crowded. In many palces and at many times you will find it is neither.? And it only takes one. These are both absolutely false and irresponsible factors to rely on, particularly for a novice.? People have been lost and died who left the trail only long enough and far enough to tafe a leak.? If you have skills and confidence to? responsibly follow the JMT from? Happy Isles to Red's Meadow, many other routes are well within your capabilities.

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