So. The JMT. Me and Chris nerded out on this pretty hard a few days ago and I want to keep that momentum. And have this set by April so we can start planning other things as well.
1) So who would be intereted in hiking the John Muir Trail this summer?
2) If you answered yes, then what dates work best or what dates wouldn't work at all?
I am going to try to squeeze a WFR in one either end of this trip. I would also be down for company.
Apparently I am signed in as Matt. This is Ben. BTW
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YES YES YES!!!!! ..... (moan, indicating climax) July? I think we should initially allot at least 3 weeks to this, but it may need to be up to a month, 2-3 days driving on each end, 2+ weeks hiking, acclimation time/rock climbing in yosemite. Time to retrace our steps back to said vehicle.
Matt and I have our family meetings at the end of june, so if we wanted to start in early-mid july i think that could work.
I have such a huge boner about this right now, no cold water can quell it.
Cool resource. These are the readings for my wilderness survival class really clear to the point information. the password is wild1 for all of the readings.
I am down for July. I am thinking more that I might do the WFR over my ridiculously long spring break either in Santa Cruz or Boulder. Or even in Eugene.
Link to the WFR information:
http://www.nols.edu/portal/wmi/courses/
I don't know if I would do the climbing as that is a lot of time and I dropped my climbing class (700 dollars for ten classes - ridiculous) so I likely will still really suck as a climber.
Here is the link I am refering to in my first line -
http://opp.uoregon.edu/wild/wildsurvival.html
I am behind this trip 110%, sounds like a splendiferous way to spend a couple weeks... I cannot respond as to my specific plans for this summer just yet however Ill start giving it some serious thought.
okay. i am so down. not even a question.
i agree with chris in that we need a month to do this.
considering it is 222 miles total. we could budget 15 mi a day, and that would still take us 15 days to do.
Plus 5 days of driving, plus several days to climb and hang out, and give us an extra couple days for hiking.
I'm for it.
I'm going, I think July would be best.
yes.
It looks like everyone is in, making the group: Alex, Michael, Dante, Ben, Matt, Nathan, Ryan and myself, 8 total. Which is what I will put on the lottery application for Mt Whitney zone. assuming we get the permit, it is 15$ per person non-refundable. So if your name is on the list, you are responsible for that money regardless of whether or not you end up committing.
if we bring eight people what will the car situation be??
should we have more or less people to maximize efficiency and minimize cost-?
What dates are you going to apply for?
Kinda a tangent, however;
I still want the information for a fake I.D.
btw
I'll forward the ID info to you. So legit. I made $25 off of some girl that dante knows at western for buying her alcohol. So legit.
The dates i'm looking to apply for are from july 24th to August 7th. the more alternate dates we have the better our chances will be. so depending on what we get, this could be a mid july - early august trip.
the car situation: we may need to take 2 regardless if we have 8 or even 7, the amount of gear and shit for even 7 people in a van would be extremely tight, ryan wants to fly to cali, and save time on driving, which could have the majority of the drive being only 7 people. we could always throw in some hitchhiking at some point after we hit the 8 person mark. i think these are details that can be worked out later though, for now all we can do is wait for the permit results.
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