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If you've hiked the JMT... what was your time?

posted 10 years ago by moonshootr
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I know the trail isn't a race, just looking for a common thread for hikers.

August 2002
My turn on the trail took 17 days.
Resupplied at Vermilion Valley Resort (first beer there was free for JMT hikers... hopefully still the case)
Unlike the hikers in the film, we encountered zero snow.
The counter-balanced bags we lost to a bear in Lyell Canyon were clearly not the first he/she had ever raided.
Highlight - aside from everything between mile zero and 211, Evolution Valley.

[–] kwb1965 8 years ago

I did the John Muir Trail in 1982 when I was seventeen with a group of 25 people, mostly teenagers with an adult leader. We did it in 21 days with one layover day, and we started at Tuolumne Meadows and went south.
It was a very heavy snow year, lots of snow at the passes and high water level in the creeks. I remember Mather Pass especially had a lot of snow.
Evolution Valley was quite beautiful. I went back there the following summer.

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