La John Muir Trail (JMT) est a hike stretching on 340 km, from Yosemite park to the Witney Mont - 4420m (Sierra Nevada digest point).
I used 14 days to hike including 4 days off to have a reste (and a shower) and refill my food.
Informations :
SF->Curry Village : Bus + train (via Merced) + Amtrack bus
Exit at Reds Meadows : shuttle at Reds Meadows Resort (eau hours) until Mammouth Village (actually I took 3 bus)
Exit via Kearsarge pass to Independence : walk down to Onion valley, hitchhiking to Independence
Wittney Portal -> Lone Pine : hitchhiking
Lone Pine -> SF : Bus (ou hitchhiking) until Lone Pine and then Mamouth, and bus to Curry Village, and so, back to SF.
... Aug 2010
Camera: Leica DLux 4
78 photos
First step: ask the permit and the bear box at the Wilderness Center.
Bear box and contents
Hi !
No car here.
Cascade Nevada
Sign for the trails
First night. One night before Surise Camp
Cathedral lake
JMT and PCT share some part of trail
Thousand island lake
Reds Meadows
Purple lake
Virginia lac
Night at Tully hole (bad idea; there was so many mosquitoes and the ground was a big flat stone)
Lac Marie
Luxurious night
Cold morning
Easy to find the trail
Wanda lake
Muir Pass
View to south from Muir Pass
Mind your step
Hi !
Water refill in the river
Mather pass
View from Mather pass (to nord, where I come from)
View from Mather pass (to south, where I go from)
Ice in my bag, brrrrr
Quiet deer
Cabane du ranger de Rae lake
Rae lake
Bivouac près du Rea lake et Painted woman en toile de fond.
Petite déviation pour regagner la vallée voisine (Onion) pour acheter des vivres.
Descente vers Onion vallée où je vais retrouver gite, couvert et douche !
Indépendence Village
Cowboy :-)
Boite à ours, près des zones de camping fréquentées.
Bivouac près de "Center Bassin Trail"
Descente depuis le Forest pass, direction sud.
Timberline lake et chaine du mont Wittney en fond
Couché de soleil sur le mont Wittney
Bivouac à l'abri du vent et lac guitare (3600m)
5h45, après deux heures et demi de marche, le sommet approche (plus que 45 min).
Levé de soleil sur la Sierra Névada (partie entre mont Wittney en océan Pacifique)
Levé de soleil sur la chaine du Mont Wittney (avec le mont Muir sur la droite)
Summit ! 4420 m. Fin de la JMT.
Vue depuis le Mont Witney.
Vue depuis le Mont Witney.
Vue depuis le Mont Witney.
To Witney Portal
Huge !