John Muir Trail

The elevation profile of the JMT. Lots of up and down! Courtesy of Reds Meadow Resort: http://www.redsmeadow.com/ (where we’ll be stopping for SEVERAL cold beers on Day 6).

Here’s the core of our JMT reading list. Trail guides, California guides, geology guides, field guides, pooing guides, ALL the guides! Plus we’ve been swotting up on general California-based fiction, e.g. John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and ‘outdoorsy’ fiction, e.g. Thoreaux. Steinbeck is big on the list because we’re stopping in Monterey on the way back to San Francisco after the hike.

Made some trail bars this morning. Recipe adapted from #rivercottage. I'm thinking about making some at Eileen's to pack in resupply boxes, rather than just buying bars. But there's probably too much butter!

We start our hike in Yosemite Valley on 18 July 2016.

John Muir