John Muir Trail

Forester Pass – JMT 8/11/2015

Aftermath

Short Version

• We bailed via the Taboose Pass exit and ultimately made it out okay
• Medical issues : I contracted a chest cold in the days prior to our departure which I wasn’t too concerned about.  From the beginning, however, all systems were not go.  I figured I’d give it a good 24 hours to see if it would turn around.  Sadly, my condition worsened to a state where pushing further on such a committing route would not have been safe.  Symptom’s : nasty cough w/ lung material coming up, head-ache, and multiple (increasing in temperature) fevers.
• Ty was having a different set of challenges for the day so both of knew that an exit was the right call.
• Yes, we’re bummed, but as Ty says, “there’s no such thing as a bad day in the mountains.”
• We had a pretty awesome “reverse Badwater-esque” exit out to highway 395 from Taboose Canyon.  If my fever weren’t enough, the conditions during our exit sealed the deal for some excellent Badwater training (i.e. marching into a fiery furnace)
• I’m reminded, yet again, how much I appreciate my great friend Ty Draney
• I’m also reminded, yet again, of how fortunate I am to be able to explore such beautiful and wild places

Long(er) Version

• Coming

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It’s finally here!  Tomorrow (8/11/2015) morning Ty Draney and I will embark on the John Muir Trail.  Below are several resources to track and gauge our progress:

• Online CalTopo map of the route with milestones identified
• Time-table with distances and our initial time estimates
• SPOT GPS tracker

We’re going south to north and unsupported.  We’ll have the SPOT in “track” mode so it should send an update every ~10 min.