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If you are walking the JMT as described in this guidebook you will enter the wilderness area at Yosemite. You therefore need to obtain a permit from the Yosemite end of the Trail (the application procedures described in full below apply to Yosemite). The Yosemite Association, a non-profit making organisation, is now responsible for issuing permits at Yosemite.

If you wish to hike the JMT from south to north (Whitney to Yosemite) you need to obtain a permit from the Whitney end of the Trail, as it is from here that you will be entering the wilderness area. For information check out the website of the Inyo Forest Wilderness Reservation Service (/www.fs.usda.gov/inyo), the private contractor that now deals with wilderness permit applications on behalf of the Inyo National Forest. Click onto ‘Passes & Permits’ and go to ‘Wilderness Permits’. Note that in order to cope with the large and increasing numbers of walkers wanting to climb Mount Whitney, permits are required not only for overnight wilderness campers but also for day hikers in the Whitney area above Lone Pine Lake. (Permits are limited to 150 day hikers and 50 over-nighters – fines of up to $200 are levied on anyone found without a permit in the Whitney area.)