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Re: Finding reports from John Ladd JMT Survey
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Thanks Rob. I corrected it
-- John Curran Ladd 1616 Castro Street San Francisco, CA? 94114-3707 415-648-9279 |
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Year-to-year differences in mosquito severity
#Conditions
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Here is the the first good graph from the pooled 2016-21 surveys. It illustrates the year-by-year variation in significant mosquito problems, worse in high snowpack years, better in low snowpack years. I would have expected that pattern, but the association is more dramatic than I would have expected. In the really low-pack 2020 and 2021 very few had significant skeeter issues and very, very few rated them as severe on my usual 0-5 scale. Matt Bromley is working with me on these and has been a great help.
For those of you wiling to use Facebook, I have just started an (this is the first of many). I think you don't need to Log into FB or join it to view it. (You may need to log in to comment on it there) If you can't see the embedded graphic above, open the attachment. -- John Curran Ladd 1616 Castro Street San Francisco, CA? 94114-3707 415-648-9279 |
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Re: Emergency beacon recommendations
Spot and Garmin both have plans that can be set up on a monthly basis as well.
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I would keep a separate GPS for general use and keep the other stored until needed. As for insurance, there is also the membership with Lifeflight that is pretty good - I have it. It also has a Fly-U-Home option that will get you from what ever hospital you are taken to in an emergency, to get you to a hospital near your home once stabilized. Two Dogs On 2/17/2022 13:15, Nicholas martin wrote:
I recommend the garmin Inreach mini (I think there is a version 2 now). Very light, decent battery life, rechargeable, works with or without a phone, reliable two way text messaging. Not very good as a stand alone gps, but that’s not really what it’s made for. Has several subscription plans, I just use the basic. I have used this on multiple Sierra trips and on some PCT sections. I highly recommend it. Also recommend getting the SAR insurance, just in case. |
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2022 cross-group spreadsheets to share your trip itinerary or to share resources
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 |
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Re: Baxter Pass
#Conditions
开云体育On my hikes i try and take pictures of most of the signs along the trail for future reference and a couple of years ago I did a section hike from Onion Valley to South Lake and happened to take a picture of the sign at the turn off for Baxter Pass. ?The photo also has GPS information of where it was taken and I have included both below in case anyone wanted to know where the turn off is located along the JMT. |
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Re: JMT Day Hikes
I can think of four possibilities that, with minimal approach, can get "boots on the trail":
The trick in all these cases will be logistics: either securing a shuttle or finding parking.? Tuolumne offers the most possible options and gets you closest to the trail at the start. If they're able to do this, I suspect they might change their minds about backpacking.? That was the case for me:? I hiked some parts of the JMT in 2015; I ended up doing the full trail three years later. -Glenn |
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Re: JMT Day Hikes
开云体育JMT in day hikes could be quite challenging as it can take miles just to hit the trail. There is the Tahoe Rim Trail that circumnavigates around Lake
Tahoe. I do have that broken down into day hike segments; longest
of which is about 20 miles. Two Dogs On 2/14/2022 17:36, K Goppert wrote:
Hi, sorry if this has already been covered.? We have friends who are not backpackers but would like to do JMT day hikes.? Any suggestions where they can look for day hike info. |
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