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APPENDIX 6 Useful Addresses and Websites in the UK and US

APPENDIX 7 Bibliography

APPENDIX 8 Trail Summary Table

Hiker on the steep descent from Forester Pass (Day 18)

INTRODUCTION

The John Muir Trail (JMT) is one of the world’s greatest treks and is North America’s best-known middistance walking trail. It runs for 216 miles through the high Sierra Nevada mountains of California, from Yosemite Valley in the north to the summit of Mount Whitney (14,496ft) above Lone Pine in the south, and takes about three weeks to complete.

The route is largely a wilderness experience, and this intensifies as one progresses along the Trail from the relative civilisation between Yosemite and Tuolumne, where there are many day-trippers and other walkers, to the huge wilderness areas further south, particularly after the Muir Trail Ranch. Tourists are once again encountered, in the form of day walkers on Mount Whitney, during the very last stages of the Trail.

The Edison Queen approaching Mono Creek ferry pick-up point (Day 9)