John Muir trail backpack trip

For 5 days we hiked about 80 miles of the jmt from cottonwood pass out thru bishop pass, about 96 miles in total.

It took a full afternoon and evening to drive from pinecrest and park the car near bishop and position ourselves on the trail over 100 miles south using 4 hitches mostly on hwy 395.

We got rides with a Southern California motorcycle gang group
We had to find a hitch late in the evening up 22 miles to the trail head
A few hitches later with locals from a native America tribe in lone pine we arrived at our trail head at cottonwood. We are just south of mount Whitney.

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