Trail 01

The John Muir Trail - 2024

Sierra Nevada, California — United States

Thirteen days through the high Sierra in the late summer of 2024, over the granite passes and past the lakes that sit behind them, finishing on the rocks below Whitney.

Duration: 13 days
Difficulty: Strenuous
Best season: Late August

Backpackers fishing on the high lakes

Into the wilderness

Here we go into the JMT

A marker at the top of the pass.

Morning in the canyon, and the long grey slopes above it.

First light catching the peaks.

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

The wife

Camping anywhere flat + our water filtration setup

The headwall, still to be climbed.

The passes

Cute little lake down the pass

A lake held in the basin below the pass.

Rae Lakes.

Junctions

We found a marker - Yay !

Charlotte Lake, Vidette Meadow, Rae Lakes - the distances that structure a day.

Above the last of the trees.

Whitney

The final countdown

Looking east through the notch.

End

The John Muir Trail - 2024

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