JMT

Yesterday we began our month long adventure, hiking the entire John Muir Trail (JMT). in preparation for our first day of hiking we came to Mammoth Lakes, CA to get some high altitude acclimation. We arrived in Mammoth last evening and did a little walking around the town. Today we returned our rental car and then walked from town up the the Mammoth Lakes basin. We walked about 9 miles and saw some beautiful scenery.
At one point we had taken a short trail to Lake McLeod
from Horseshoe Lake (one of the Mammoth Lakes) and came upon a sign identifying the JMT to be 3 miles from there. A side note, in the morning we drove up to the the main lodge at Mammoth to witness hundreds of people going skiing (or snowboarding) on August 3, it was surreal.
For the next couple of days we will be in Mammoth acclimating and on August 6 we will meet our guide abd another couple in Lee Vining CA before we are shuttled south to the staring point just south of Lone Pine CA. Once there we will most assuredly be without any service and so I am not too sure how this blogging is going to go. I will try to make notes each day and upload thise when we get somewhere that has service.

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