Gallatin Crest to Cliff Creek Trail (13 miles, +1,700/-5,200 feet). Today was a tale of two trails. It was the best of trails, it was the worst of trails…. Last night we did not get as much rain as I expected. It was enough to make it cozy sleeping in the tent but not so…
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Hyalite Creek Trail
Hyalite Creek Trail to Crater Lake (12 miles, +4,500/-2,000 feet). My buddy UltraShuffle called me a few months ago saying he had a wedding in Bozeman, Montana coming up, and could we please go hiking in Glacier National Park? Sure, no problem! So I designed a trip, we went back and forth on the details,…
Filling the Gap
Garnet Lake to Agnew Meadows (8 miles, +1,100/-2,500 feet). Our last day on trail was super easy and surprisingly pretty. The main virtue of today’s route for me (other than the burger and beer at its end!) was to see part of the John Muir Trail I had to abandon on an earlier trip where…
Clinch Pass
Lower Twin Island Lake to Garnet Lake (11 miles, +3,200/-3,100 feet). Today was one of those happy accidents. I have frequently found that Plan Bs end up being better than Plan As, maybe not because they are objectively better, but because they often involve surprise. I had no idea how spectacular the upper basin of…
Whitebark, Garnet, and North Glacier Pass
Forest camp above Ediza Lake to Lower Twin Island Lake (9 miles, +3,300/-3,000 feet). Today was extremely gorgeous! We basically spent the whole time circumnavigating the highly photogenic Ritter and Banner Peaks and the lakes below them. I will definitely need to come back to this part of the High Route. To make things even…
Nancy Pass
Devil’s Postpile to forest camp above Ediza Lake (13 miles, +4,700/-2,900 feet). Time for my annual hike with UltraShuffle! Only this time we added two to our party, MixMaster and UltraShuffle’s son Rainbow T. We drove up to Mammoth yesterday to acclimatize and then headed off on a section of the Sierra High Route. Our…
The JimmyJam Hiking Club 