So cool to see you hiking there, must be awesome. I always dig seeing folks that do the AT get over to the West and hike JMT, PCT, etc. It just seems more beautiful, but really just a different kind, compared. I've hiked around Yosemite and the meadows and Sections of the PCT near Lassen and Shasta and Etna, etc. in a Wheelchair. Lived in NorCal many years. Laid tracks in the chair that I'm pretty sure noone else ever has, lol. Anyway, happy for you and look forward to more of the scenery. Peace, Wheelchair John in Idaho :)
I got as far as Donohue in 2014, then turned around (to slow and fat!) so you have brought back some great memories of the trail. Hopefully going back in 2018!
Camping is forbidden near the outlet to Thousand Island Lake, where the trail passes it, so the recommendation to camp there is a bad one. Plenty of sites on the north shore, though.
So great to see all this magnificent scenery! It's inspiring as I plan to do this same hike within the next 12 to 18 months (permit permitting). In the meantime, I've got a Golden Ticket for a few days at Havasupai after Thanksgiving. Looking forward to the rest of your videos!
Not gonna kid you...those meadow views are calling me! Those were my favorite on the AT, the fields with the rolling hills and mountains in the background. Don't know if the PCT is ever in my future, but I think the JMT has just been penciled onto my list! Appreciate it bro! Guys like you and Spielberg are always showing us new experiences, and pushing folks like me to dream bigger dreams. Looking forward to Spielberg's upcoming video releases as well. Appreciate you!
Early_Riser_71 you have already done a very big dream. I watched most of your vids on the AT. Awesome guy you are. Cheers. I’m hoping to get on the JMT next year.
Great hike video. Enjoy a video showing the terrain and views with some trail info thrown and not one focused on how fast one can go how far. Keep up the show.
That guy with the mustache was one of the people that saved my life in that forest, i got lost and some loggers found me after wandering around the woods for 3 days with no food or water. It was nuts xD
What are you eating out of in the beginning of this video? Seems like a metal pot, which wasn't on your gear list video. Did you decide not to go stoveless?
Ya, but just getting a box to VVR has a charge of $27 (not including real shipping costs or the cost of the food) and that is cheap vs Muir Trail Ranch, who will change you $80 for upto 25lb for a resupply. On the other hand, the amount it costs to just to get on trail, the extra ~$6 to get a hot meal on the trail is NOTHING.
Ya, Red's, VVR and Muir trail ranch are not "in town" stops off the trail, they are all right on the trail, at least some what in the back country. Hence the higher prices. Muir Trail Ranch is the most extreme because all supplies or resupplies get to the site via mules or possibly helicopter.
fun hanging out with you except at virginia lake, that was just too cold. iagu sends his best. your gait in this video is satisfactory but not ideal, we can work on it. till next time buddy.
Yeah we ended up ducking out of the big snowfall at kearsarge pass. We got up whitney on the 29th! Was a beaut of a JMT thru hike, Alyssa got a bunch of good video of all of us. The thing you should be worried about is Mitchell Trubisky embarrassing the purple on monday night. I'll text you when the bears win buddy.
Love watching your videos, but man you need to spend a few more minutes more capturing some of those lake views. You went by them so quick. Take a look at the money shot on 15:31 and how quick you blew by that. Please, in your next videos when you come across something that incredible, just wait a minute, watch and record it. We'll all appreciate it. And trust me, you'll appreciate it down the road when you're looking back at these awesome videos.
+hokieskrb Thanks, great feedback. I actually spent a lot of time at thousand and Garnet. I met a couple of great groups of hikers and was just enjoying the views and their company. Sometimes I forget to capture some of these parts.
Wow, gorgeous scenery! Don't worry about forgetting to film at the top of the pass; sometimes you have to just experience the moment :) Good luck with the rest of it!
I think I noted this before hand, but you can do the first ~60 miles with a super light pack, though you do pay for it in the camp stores. If you do it right, you can only have 1.5 days on food on you to start and then again out of Tuolumne meadows. The store resupplies will run you an extra ~$10-20 per day, do to the high prices of food at the store, but if your first resupplies is VVR, it means starting with 5.5 days of food (11lb), you have just 1.5 days of food, just 3lb of food for each ~30 mile stretch. (This is assuming people are doing 15 miles per day of trail miles). Saving that much weight for that many miles really might be worth the cost for a lot of people. A lso, if you have the time or are driving in from Tuolumne, you can stop and stash your own resupply in the bear box of the parking lot where you get the wilderness passes. I think you can store food their for 2 weeks it labeled.
Omg we saw Leafy coming down Kearsarge! I wanted to ask him if he saw you but, I didn't want to be buggy plus, that dude was moving fast and ULTRA light! Super nice guy. Great video.
