My free time has been given over to
planning my trip. I wake up in the
middle of the night and I am thinking about the trail. Hi, my name is Jay, and I am a trail addict.
I imagine I am not alone in my growing obsession with the trail. With still over 5 months to go before I need
something to do to help the time to go faster, and as I said before I love to
plan. I came across a great JMT trip
planner program (Excel file) through the Yahoo! JMT group. It allows you to
enter your campsite (based on Elizabeth Wink’s book) then calculates your daily
mileage, elevation gain and loss. It is even customizable to your departure
date, and will give you the sunrise and set time each day. A big thanks to its
creator!
Currently it looks like I am going to
be doing the trail in 18 days. I am
trying to get one of my permits changed to be able to leave a day early which
would give me a 19 day trip. The longer
the better! It will be nice to be able to take it slow at the beginning and
enjoy the trail. The only fixed date I
have is to get to Muir Trail Ranch 8 days before I finish, due to the amount of
supplies that I am sending there. Using the Yahoo! Planner I have come up with
the following plan:
|
Day
|
Daily Mileage
|
Campsite
|
|
1
|
4.4
|
Little
Yosemite Valley CG
|
|
2
|
13.4
|
Lower Cathedral Lake
|
|
3
|
11.7
|
NW Evelyn
Junction*
|
|
4
|
13.8
|
Thousand Island Lakes
|
|
5
|
12.2
|
N.
of Minert Creek Crossing
|
|
6
|
9.2
|
N. of Deer Creek Crossing*
|
|
7
|
11.8
|
Lake
Virginia
|
|
8
|
11.1
|
Quail Meadows
|
|
9
|
15.5
|
Sallie
Keys Lakes
|
|
10
|
5.7
|
MTR
South Cut-Off*
|
|
11
|
9.0
|
Evolution
Valley Area
|
|
12
|
13.2
|
North Evolution Lake+
|
|
13
|
16.0
|
Upper
Palisade Lake
|
|
14
|
16.1
|
Sawmill Pass Trail
|
|
15
|
10.3
|
Sixty
Lakes Junction
|
|
16
|
18.2
|
Tyndal Creek
|
|
17
|
11.6
|
Guitar
Lake
|
|
18
|
13.07
|
Lone Pine Hotel
|
*Resupply + possible zero day
Even as I put this plan down in type, I
wonder if I will actually stick to it once I hit the trail. The best laid plans of mice and men and
all. It is a good way to pass the time,
but I hate to think that I am going to be so rigid that I will not take
advantage of opportunities when they arise out on the trail
Hi thanks for the great info. Joined the yahoo group but unsure of which JMT planner to use.
ReplyDeleteBill
That's very exciting, I have seen similar planners, but this one sounds very promising. I completely understand the mental journey you are on, I am going through similar visions and I still have over a year.
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