I just got back from an 11-day trip down the John Muir Trail. I don't have photos up yet (I took 123 pictures, gotta love digital cameras), but my journal is here now:

http://www.trailjournals.com/haiku_jmt/

Haiku.

nice journal. sounds like you had a great time. Journals like these get me dreaming about hiking the PCT after the AT. Good grief, I'm really hooked......

Any 18 yr olds comment on the kilt?

Nice journal! I can't believe how bad your weather was in the beginning. I swear we saw a couple whispy clouds and thought it was partly cloudy. I guess we got lucky. Since we had sun and fun the whole time, check out our photos to see the views you missed.

www.lanz.us

There was a group of four of us that went. All of us AT SOBO '01 alums. There are two extra people on Day 1 (our ride to Yosemite from San Fran). I'm the guy in the kilt.

Nice pictures! I actually took over 100 photos with my digital camera, but only uploaded some of them. I probably would have taken more if my camera had been more accessible - it was in my pack because my kilt doesn't have pockets. =) Maybe I should make or buy a little pouch to go on my pack's front shoulder strap....

No 18 year old girls commented about the kilt, but I did get a lot of good comments, and questions. It was a great conversation starter. =)

Haiku.

Just curious, how did you get your permit and Whitney Stamp without a bear cannister? Did they ask if you had one?
Cin

I thought about lying and saying I had one, but when the moment came, I came clean. They wrote on my permit, "Refused cannister, will counterbalance." I didn't counterbalance. If a ranger had caught me I could have been warned or fined. That was my choice over carrying an extra 3lbs of dead weight.

Haiku.