These images are from our thru-hike of the JMT in 98. We hiked from August 16 through September 3, southbound. The hike took 18 days to complete, covering about 220 miles. Solophile and I are indebted to Big Bird (of AT 97 fame) for the splendid hospitality in the Bay City, the time he took off to be our personal tour guide, and the great hitch out to Yosemite.
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Trail IQ test There are a lot of different fences and gates along the JMT one has to manage. No two are the same. At first, we thought some were stiles we had to climb over or around. After about the fifth one (I think down in Franklin Meadows), it dawned on Solophile that we were climbing over not stiles, but pack animal gates. And gates had to open somehow. Even armed with this new-found knowledge of the ways of the west, we still had to figure out how to get through some of these things. That long slog down Woods Creek reluctantly forced me to wrap an angry knee. Hurray for Vitamin I. While a toxicologist would cringe at the thought, it's pretty common to ingest a half dozen or more Ibuprofin tabs during a day's hike to keep some of the joint, muscle and bone pain at bay. |
