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Re: On JMT Cold incoming Sunday - Wednesday or so - from Ned Tibbits
#Conditions
By the way, I just posted a slightly expanded version of this on the new multi-contributor site hike the Sierra Nevada. Com. Without all the spaces of course.
Voice dictated as usual. I'm on my phone and my hand tremor makes it hard to correct the voice dictation. Sorry for any typos -- John Curran Ladd San Francisco, CA? 415-648-9279 |
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Re: Walk in permits
#permits
I'm quite confident that the ranger instructional talk will be online, not in person. They are feeling very very short staffed at Inyo and the other national Forests
I doubt that we will ever see true walk-ups anymore. At least not in the number of permits that are given on a walk-up basis. They're great for locals like me. They're great for poor planners, otherwise known as spontaneous people. But they're just a lot more work for the short staffed and underfunded national Forest system. They only hire US citizens and US citizens are hard to hire these days for poorly paid these days for 3 months of work or you are confined to a not particularly attractive office dealing with cranky and over privileged hikers, only one of which a day can pretty much ruin it. It's the same problem that waitresses and flight attendants have these days. Sad! Voice dictated in a hurry. Sorry. -- John Curran Ladd San Francisco, CA? 415-648-9279 |
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Re: Walk in permits
#permits
I know that you are able to print out the permit seven days in advance, which I plan to do, and assume that whatever procedure needed to get the permit would be done online as well. When I've picked up permits in the past (pre COVID), the ranger talk was always quite minimal, and they also had a night drop box that I used and there was no conversation with a ranger at all.
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zPacks Altaplex on JMT?
#gear
Has anyone used the zPacks Altaplex in the Sierra Nevada, especially on terrain not conducive to stakes where rocks have to be used to set up?
I've always used a zPacks Hexamid Twin, a dual pole shelter that sets up well on all sorts of terrain, but that tent is getting very old and I got an Altaplex to replace it. However, the Altaplex, which is a single pole shelter with a very high profile, just seems less wind worthy and potentially harder to tension properly on terrain that doesn't allow for the use of stakes driven into the ground. I was nervous with my setup on a windy night recently along the AT where I could use stakes. And had trouble imagining using the shelter on a windy exposed night above treeline on the JMT. It's too bad zPacks discontinued the Hexamid Twin. I might sell my Altaplex and risk using my Hexamid Twin for my upcoming JMT. I've also considered going with a more traditional shelter like the Copper Spur which has a smaller footprint and is freestanding, so I'd be able to use it with less worry in more places, albeit at a significant weigh penalty. |
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Re: Walk in permits
#permits
Still being done online two weeks in advance. I'm hoping to switch from Red Cones to Duck Pass. ?https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/inyo/passes-permits/recreation
I wonder if they'll ever go back to true walk-ups.? From my perspective as a non-local, the two week short-term window is better. For locals, I would imagine that going back to the old walkups would be preferred. |
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Re: Walk in permits
#permits
https://www.recreation.gov/permits/233262? > Need to know
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"Print at Home or Request Permit
One week?before the trip you can print at home or request the permit. Link to full???After printing you cannot make changes unless you contact the wilderness permit office or go into the visitor center during open hours." I hope this information is current.
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Gesendet:?Donnerstag, 05. Mai 2022 um 18:00 Uhr
Von:?"Larry Beck via groups.io" <becklaurence@...> An:[email protected] Betreff:?[JMT-groups.io] Walk in permits #permits Has the Inyo walk up permit policy returned to pre-pandemic procedures? Do we now pick them up at the ranger station on the day of or, are they still made available two weeks in advance?
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Re: On JMT Cold incoming Sunday - Wednesday or so - from Ned Tibbits
#Conditions
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI have been following this new storm for a bit. I refer to
OpenSnow and OpenSummit apps that provide some great insight. Two Dogs On 5/5/2022 09:09, John Ladd wrote:
See this on incoming cold weather this coming week. Ned is our best weather adviser. Long term PCT trainer for the early shoulder season (May-June).? |
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On JMT Cold incoming Sunday - Wednesday or so - from Ned Tibbits
#Conditions
See this on incoming cold weather this coming week. Ned is our best weather adviser. Long term PCT trainer for the early shoulder season (May-June).?
Ned's post: "Sierra Weather Update, 5/5/22: The Jet Stream has, indeed, dipped to the south (rather than flowing over Portland-Seattle), a high pressure ridge off CA did not build in to block or deflect it away from the Sierra, and it's pointing right at California to impact the Sierra north of Yosemite, mainly, with a few inches of snow. But, it's going to be COLD! Not only did the "steering committee" low pressure system that we've been talking about park itself in the power position of the Gulf of Alaska, but two other lows are going to join it and swing our way, one out of the North Pole and the other from Russia, thus the COLD! PCT/JMT hikers in the Sierra this weekend, bundle up and carry more food, both as "furnace food" (to keep you warm, internally) and for storm-zeros inside your tent. I'm not saying that it would be unwise to enter the drought-winter Sierra right now, just do so prepared for changeable conditions that may include snow and severe cold (down near 10 degrees for a daily low at 11,000 feet). The Jet is not low enough to be catching tropical moisture and bringing rain, but it has enough potential to accomplish most anything at altitude and will last for days, well into next week (starting this weekend - mostly Sunday and on). The yellow flag is still out on the track! See his FB page (FB membership not required) https://www.facebook.com/ned.tibbits/posts/10221848214333865?__cft__[0]=AZUzuT9yV0Ol0pKFeM0rxwZKNZOD1vrrNfPtFgOM5rNDTp7jRW5rY0gRUIzQZI8q9cqBh-3C-3mBnXhUeqkV58cbkRp9xnFVZvVzTieQ6D4wpteSjNEssCjy7G6TH0OPeSw&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R -- John Curran Ladd San Francisco, CA? 415-648-9279 |
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Our new data + experience website and 2014-21 pooled #JMTsurvey reports
#JMTsurvey
I will be interviewed for about an hour this Saturday (10am PDT) by hiker and reporter Ben Spillman for a free live video podcast.
I will talk about the new multi-contributor website HikeTheSierraNevada.com and about the progress in presenting the results of 7,000 survey responses to the JMT Hiker Survey covering the years 2014-21. -- John Curran Ladd San Francisco, CA? 415-648-9279 (landline) |
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Ray Rippel, a longtime member here, and author if the great preparation guideline found at jmtbook.com (though permit sections are outdated, sadly), has a great list of JMt-related names (people and places) with interesting discussion threads
See also Peter Browning's Place Names of the Sierra Nevada (Wilderness Press 1986, 1991) and the classic: Francis Farquhar, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada (Sierra Club 1926) -- John Curran Ladd San Francisco, CA? 415-648-9279 (landline) |
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Re: JMT SOBO profile planner v4.xlsx - A great planning tool!
#food
Probably. Let me check sometime today. If I don't get back to you on or off board sometime today, please remind me. I was going on right now and I'm tending to forget things that are not top of mind to me. It's a useful tool and I want to make sure it's available to the group and it's best possible form. I assume we should keep both the Excel and the Google sheet version since not everyone can use Excel or a fully compatible program.
If you have figured out what doesn't doesn't work in the Google sheets version please email me off board to explain what doesn't work and I can add that as a note in the Google sheet version, or you can. That can serve as a warning for people to use the Excel version if they need the added features they're available with Excel. Thanks for letting me know about this. I may have inadvertently deleted the Excel version without much thought, may be able to recover it in the Google drive trash if it has not been permanently deleted already. Or I may have it on my hard drive locally. I assume you're not able to find it anywhere. -- John Curran Ladd San Francisco, CA? 415-648-9279 |
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Re: JMT SOBO profile planner v4.xlsx - A great planning tool!
#food
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI used a similar profile as my first cut for route planning - gives a pretty good sense of what your daily hiking entails, and helps identify campsites relative to creek crossings and passes. Sometimes a ¡°two pass¡± day comes into greater clarity when viewed in profile, compared to plan view.After that first cut, I used CalTopo to tinker and refine. On 29 Apr 2022, at 4:13 am, Smith, Jeffrey H (US 2510) via groups.io <jeffrey.h.smith@...> wrote:
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