Complete Guide to John Muir Trail - Trail log. Ezekeiel 3. 4: 2. I will make a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
We understood this to mean bears!] Job 5: 2. The beasts of the field shall be at peace with you." As soon as we hit the JMT from our campsite at Silver Lake, we met a couple from Fresno, California, who were walking along with an MP3 player and speakers dangling off the guy's backpack.
It was Jesse Duplantis preaching at the Southwest Believer's Convention. We kept up with them until Pocket Meadow, listening to the preaching, and talking with them. The trail down is forested, no streams until Pocket Meadow, through which a small stream meandered. Right after the meadow an enormous view of the whole glaciated valley opened up, with the steep mountaintops above, and polished sides below.
Then the trail went down,down,down in some tight switchbacks. Soon beautiful Mono Creek came alongside the trail, and we stopped to take pictures. That was yet another part of the JMT we could've spent all day, lingering to enjoy the scenery.
There were aspens and pine and fir, and ferns and grasses- -very lush. Some of the aspen leaves were already yellow. Then the trail followed switchbacks down a steep, dry, south facing area for about a mile. Onto the next meadows, where we came to the sign for Lake Edison ferry.
Here you leave the JMT for a 1. Quail Meadows. A sign posted on a tree indicated that we should cross Mono Creek and walk in the now- dry lakebed until we come to an American flag, the sign said one mile.
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The creek was flowing fast at that point so we looked up and down to find a suitable crossing place. Steve, the agile one, carried my pack across as we jumped from boulder to boulder. Then an eerie trek across dry lakebed, with sand blowing fiercely against us. We arrived at the flag at the same time as Dave and Karen, the MP3 toting hikers. She is the one who gave us the Ezekiel and Job scriptures quoted at the beginning of this section, so appropriate for this trail.
Soon after a Swiss couple staggered through the sand. The had a guide book which set a pace of 1. JMT. Sadly, that was the definition for them of "blistering pace." They had started in Yosemite, and before Mammoth her shoes had fallen apart. She bought new boots in Mammoth, but now had bleeding blisters on both heels.
They were going to bail out at Vermillion. We waited and waited for the water taxi. Finally, around 4: 3. By that time there were 1. It zoomed us to the dock, where a dusty, klunky van was our shuttle to the resort, over 2 miles away. In a good year of snow this whole area is full of water.
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We pulled up at VVR, and the owner, Jim, came out to greet us and give us the lowdown on the facility. He pointed to a dusty plot of ground and said we were welcome to set up our tent. My expectation had been for a night in a tent cabin, so I was disappointed. Steve went in to start a tab, and came out with a key to a "yurt," which is a wood frame and canvas circle tent- so cute and nicely furnished. It was $8. 5, but SO worth it. We took our showers, started a load of laundry($5/load) and went to dinner.
Showers were included for us because we were in the yurt but otherwise hot showers and towel were $5 per person. My shower was hot for 3- 4min, then turned tepid. Steve said he turned it off and on, and got a spurt of hot water each time. My first impression of VVR was bad because it was dusty, and looked like a dumpy trailer court. They rent the trailers as motel rooms. They are building a new bathhouse/laundry facility, which will be nice because the showers were not a great experience, which is a kind way of saying that they were filthy. Of course, everyone using them was like us, filthy.
But keep your shoes on! Dinner was absolutely great.
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We had New York steak, cooked to perfection, garlic mashed potatos, and vegies. Cherry pie a la mode completed the meal- Steve's favorite. After dinner I used the internet connection($1. I tried to check bill pay and other automated features, but after 2 weeks I have forgotten the passwords! That actually felt good. Jae G emailed that no fires were on our path, and that someone else might come with them over Kearsarge pass.
Back to our yurt, where we sorted our package that we had sent to VVR($1. We decided to get back on the trail instead of staying another night, even though with a full tummy and a clean body we were warming up to VVR.
The staff is so accomodating and friendly- really made a difference. The bed was so comfy, and the yurt so cute, it was getting hard to leave. But we were ready to get back to the wilderness.