Welcome to my backyard! Love the Sierras! Great video, and this is definitely one of my favorite areas outside of the yosemite/ kings canyon / Sequoia areas
Ok love the video!!!!! Great picture quality. So three questions. 1. How much did the pack weigh for both trips? 2. Is the guy in the crazy body net a pothead? 3. Which hike would you do again?
Doing this next year with my brothers. Did you have to register with the Rangers station? Were the mosquitoes really bad? They were horrible for a day hike this year.
This was excellent !! I did the HST with my daughter in 2018. Watching your video has inspired me to go back again. It brought a year to my eye seeing it again. John Muir said " The mountains are calling and I must go". I can feel the same as he did right now. Thank you for sharing. This was all I needed to go again.
If you ever go back to this trail area, please look for any evidence of Jared Negrete. The 12 year old child went missing on July 19, 1991 in that area. His boyscout leader had been leading him and other boy scouts on a hike to Mt. Gorgonio. It's my understanding Jared had been left at the 1,000 mark from the peak, at his leaders instruction. And that Jared would be picked back up on the groups return from the top of that mountain. But when they came back down, Jared was no where to be found.
When you got back down to Hogees, you should have taken the "Upper Winter Creek" trail to Chantry flats. You would have arrived in the back of the Chantry Flats picnic area and avoided having to hike back up "Cardiac Hill". Regardless, heck of an accomplishment doing this hike.
Good to know😊.I have seen them patroling at Cottonwood lakes and they had the temprament of an hungry piranna.Looking to really stick it to someone .I did not know you can keep at number five.Happy eating ,😊Golden trout are the best ! 😆Glad you enjoyed it! Sorry for the comment I did not know. 😣Was hoping to keep you from getting a big fine from a DFG grump!
I delt with comments like this on my cottonwood lake video also lol. Always haters but they don't realize that lakes 5 and 6 are catch and keep. All other lakes are catch and release. Smh
Great video! I noticed a few of you had chairs. What did you think about them? I know they're a nice luxury but would you take them again! Any regrets? I'm doing a 120 mile section in 3 weeks 😀
I personally did not bring mine and left it in the car. The rest of the group enjoyed their chairs after long days on the trail. Beats sitting on logs and rocks! If you don't mind carrying an extra two pounds then I would say go ahead! Definitely a luxury item. I'm hiking Cottonwood Lakes this weekend and I'm bringing my chair since the hike isn't all that bad.
Hiked that trail to Dobb's Cabin about five times in the 1960s when I was in my 20s. The joke with any first time hikers when they asked, 'how much farther is it?' was to tell them, 'just around the bend!' A hike from hell for first timers. You have to start early to avoid the bugs. We even got snow one year and hiked out and had to save a troop of Boy Scouts coming down from Dollar Lake. The snow covered the trail until all you could see was the dent of the trail on the ground. I"ve been up and down the creek trying to find the only fish in it, and actually caught one. We buried some Country Club Stout up there one year and came back and found it. It still worked. Use to go up there with nothing but fishing gear, cornmeal and margarine, and a spade to dig worms. If we didn't catch a fish, we starved except for some light snacks we brought along. We starved because there weren't any fish to be caught. Probably even worse fishing nowadays. I"m in North Idaho now and wouldn't go back to California for nuthin'.
GREAT great great video! I really enjoyed it. Made me miss it. Looks like y'all had such an amazing time. Who wouldn't!? Thank you for sharing your memories!
Oh man... where did you find Ito En Tea along the trail!? That would be like finding gold out there to me... I need to know for when I hike that trail. LOL.
One of the best JMT videos i've seen and i've been watching them for years now. Very well edited and the music was excellent!! Well done and congrats!!
I'm planning out a solo hike on the JMT this summer. Resupplying right now is my biggest concern. How far out of the way and how difficult was it to go to Onion Valley? I read somewhere it's a fews miles off the JMT.
The Onion Valley parking lot is ~7 miles from the JMT, so ~14 miles is added to your trip with an OV resupply. The hike wasn't too bad since our packs were lighter and we were stronger. We stayed a night at Flower Lake to break up the mileage. Kearsarge Pass isn't too bad when compared to other passes on the JMT.
Me too! I somehow got a permit reservation for Happy Isles to Whitney Portal starting on 4 August. This'll be my first JMT and second summit of Whitney.
You guys rock. Thanks for sharing this very beautiful and well thought out video. Loved the sound track and the editing you did. The video is a real work of art . The hikers look and act like genuine human beings.and friends. And thats an awful great thing. Mahalo. Cheers.
Was two days behind this group...started on the 31st and finished on the 21st. Absolutely the most beautiful trail you can hike! Wish I'd done the GoPro afterall.............
