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trips - 5 Days on the JMT

Trip Info

Dates: 8/4 - 8/9/07
Trip Organizer: sacco
Location: Sierra Nevada

Number of Attendees: (view all)
3 yes
0 maybe

California
California Books
California Parks

 

Description


Starting on August 4th, hike in to the JMT from Onion Valley CG.
Then down the JMT to Whitney Portal.
Hooking up with Gemini and Jackstraw on their thru-hike.

Wife and i will be driving in from Vegas on Aug 2, camping out in onion valley for a couple nites.
From whitney portal I'll be driving back to vegas, dropping off JS and Gem at Lancaster.

ONION VALLEY CAMPGROUND SITE 16

Aug 2
drive vegas to onion valley CG (9,200')

Aug 3
hang out, horseback riding, fishing, dayhiking, acclimating, whatever

Aug 4, 6 miles (resupply gemini and jackstraw)
onion valley to kearsarge Pass (+2,600) to kearsarge lakes (-800)

Aug 5, 6 miles
to center basin junction (-1,000)

Aug 6, 9 miles
to forester pass (+3,200) to tyndall creek CA (-2,400)

Aug 7, 12 miles
to guitar lake (+600)

Aug 8, 10 miles
to mt whitney (+3,000) to trail camp (-2,500)

Aug 9, 7 miles
to whitney portal (-3,300)

Aug 10
drive back to vegas via lancaster

 

= Yes, = Maybe

Trip Attendees

sacco Randall GreenMonkee

 

Picture Albums


5 Day JMT Trip Route LV4 Maps (5 pics) - Randall
5 Day JMT Trip Route (1 pics) - Randall
5 Day JMT trip EVL Profile (1 pics) - Randall

 

Threads

Thread Name # Messages # Views Last Post
5 Days on the JMT33077122:59 PM
8/23/07
created by: sacco on 12/21/06 - jump to page: 1, 2, 3, ...5, 6, 7
links, links, links!23861:58 PM
12/27/06
created by: sacco on 12/21/06

 

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