High Sierra 2024: John Muir Trail & Sierra High Route (Day 4)

Day 4 - The second day of our first off-trail section, we hiked from a 10,200 ft lake in the Ansel Adams wilderness, traversed the North Fork of the San Joaquin River Canyon, ascended over rugged North Glacier Pass, and finally descended to Thousand Island Lake to camp.
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This was our second attempt at hiking the JMT from Yosemite Valley to Mt Whitney. After last year's attempt in the 2023 record snow year, for this year, we decided to string together a 17-day route that was mostly on the John Muir Trail, but with some alternate routes and several sections of off-trail hiking.
We made it 11 of our 17 days but then unfortunately had to get off trail due to injury.
Despite all that, it was an amazing experience. This was the first time I've done this level of off-trail hiking, and although it pushed us to our limits, the off-trail hiking turned out to be the highlight of the trip.
We do intend to come back at some point in the future to finish.

[@JamesHunter55]

Great videos JB! Looking forward to the upcoming days. Can you tell me what gpx flyover app you are using for the tracking. Looks like Relive but not sure. Also the wavy white route lines, that is so useful, ...how are you doing that? Cheers!

[@jbhikes1288]

Thanks for your feedback! The gpx flyover is from the website rumbo.world. The animated tracked line is done in Davinci Resolve in the Fusion editor. It took a while to learn but there are plenty of video tutorials on how to do this. Hope this helps!

[@evanator8637]

I am in this video

[@seandelatte]

@ yourself. I'm william in a stink mood!

[@HeadNtheClouds]

I am a furry Marmot 😂

[@joez4284]

I'm very interested in doing the same day 4 route that you did. Can you post your route map (GPS) somewhere.

[@jbhikes1288]

Here is the Caltopo link for the entire planned trip. I also have tracks loaded for the off-trail days. caltopo.com/m/N6FMQ I'd also recommend Roper's Sierra High Route book. This route follows his through this section.