This entry will seem to be off in miles hiked due to the fact that we have decided to complete the John Muir Trail (JMT) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir_Trail. We hiked into Tuolumne Meadows near Highway 120 in the Yosemite National Park (I'll post coordinates later). Much of the JMT parallels the PCT so we did not have to get off the Pacific Crest Trail to hike the Muir Trail. However we still had to cross snowfield after snowfield.
The hike into the Yosemite area cannot be adequately described. There are miles of massive granite domes towering over hundred of hiking trails and giant Sequoia trees.
Tomorrow we plan to complete the JMT by hiking up to the Half Dome area: http://www.thebackcountry.org/halfdome/ and actually climbing it on Sunday morning. When we come down from the Dome, we will hike into Happy Isles trail head and we will have completed the JMT.
Keep hiking,
Greybeard
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