Jaru Walks - PCT Days 23 to 28

[@wendygrw]

Starting to get caught back up with your videos. Fascinating to see the transition from desert to the Sierras, and so stark. Wow. Great job showing your viewers the point where the transition was so evident. Beautiful, large trees there at that first campsite with the two women through hikers. And then another dusty, rocky high mountain pass. You are doing amazing work with the vlog!

[@highonlifealone4332]

What an accomplishment to have made it through the desert section in such extreme conditions. This was an awesome video seeing the transition into the Sierra mountains, how beautiful. You are just an amazing hiker, even taking the time to talk to other hikers, even though you have so many thousands of miles to hike. Keep up the great work and spirit you have, it is contagious. Stay safe.

[@-alpenglow-]

The bridge was not destroyed by the hurricane. It was the severe snow load of the winter of 2023 when the Southern Sierra Nevada had a record 300% of normal snow pack.

[@JaruWalks]

Awesome, thank you for the correction. Amazing, who would think snow could collapse a bridge.

[@pete8516]

I've watched a number of PCT Thru hikes and honestly was starting to get tired of the same old vlogs...but your hike is awesome to watch...the speed which you're going without any zeros is crazy ....thanks for keeping it real

[@mariestansberry3282]

Welcome to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. You will experience rain showers, thunder and lightning during the late afternoon hours. Appreciate your sharings! You are mastering so many new experiences! So much fun to tag along with you!

[@kosowskj]

Thank you for letting me tag along with you on this epic journey! Your insight to what you are doing is truly fascinating. Will be sending you good vibes for your continued success.

[@1519Spring]

Have been waiting for this section. I backpacked this section between Kennedy Meadows and Mt. Whitney (14,494 ft) (did the side quest) about a decade ago. Mt. Elbert (14, 440 ft) is nearly that high. So beautiful.

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo........on desert session........wow.........ur the first......bear can........great do.......cheers

[@-alpenglow-]

An alluvial fan is a triangular shaped mound of sediment where water has deposited it after emerging from a narrow gap. Up at the pass there, I think you would call that spot a chute or a notch.

[@SkepticalRaptor]

Yup, an alluvial fan would only be found at the base of a mountain range where the slope flattens out and the sediment in the river water falls out.

[@JaruWalks]

Awesome, thank you for the correction.

[@dennisk905]

Just beautiful thanks for sharing

[@PokerNBilliards]

Dood, I can tell you’re excited about the sierras. Taking that extra time to get those backgrounds. It’s just different there. Your video was very nostalgic for me. Thank you!

[@Randy-v9q]

Well the only thing I got to say is that you are the fastest backpacker I ever watched enjoy the Sierras nice filming

[@Kay_Lorraine]

Spent my life around giant fir and pine, always feel that pitch is their form of blood. Pretty sure it is their mechanism to scab over cuts so insects and disease cant get deep into the tree. Not the best idea to jump into a cave during a thunder storm. But glad those ladies had each other. I've been watching Roadrunner aka Hiking Dancer and Bossbae & Birdcall aka Travel Write Paint. Fun to see the places they've been through your eyes now. They did some long roadwalks around the fires in OR. Travel Write Paint has kept their continuous footpath around OR fires so far. Always a treat to see your new video! 💜

[@Psych_Toad]

Babe wake up, new Jaru video

[@DJMoore-001]

Damn, You are flying. Awesome.

[@Fistmele]

Ahhh, summer in the Sierra!

[@CJoy076]

Really interesting to see the Sierra's in mid-summer, different to most of the PCT videos.

[@haydenwalton2766]

I keep hearing the music to MASH whenever you show the hills from the last week

[@suemoore1965]

GLAD YOU CHOSE TO GO UP AND OVER WHILE OTHERS CHOSE TO WAIT IT OUT UNTIL MORNING 💕🤍👣

[@lindatipton413]

Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤

[@eddiemathis412]

I live in W.N.C and the pine trees use their sap to seal the open areas such as scraps and cuts to keep insects and diseases from getting in the tree, it's the tree protection mechanism, I love your videos however why don't you ever take footage of the towns and other resupply stops that you go into ?

[@JaruWalks]

@@eddiemathis412 Because I’m trying to get in and out of them without wasting a single second. Because they are the first time in four days of walking 129 miles that I have the ability to sit down and not walk 30 miles that day. Because they are the only place I have reliable cell signal. And because they are where the least plot development occurs. Towns are where I edit video, eat, and buy groceries. There is no uncertainty in town. Town is a fact like filming a bridge or a tree. This is a bridge, this is a tree, this is a town. If the town is noteworthy i occasionally include it. For example Idylwild.

[@SkepticalRaptor]

Not to be pedantic, but the mountain range is called the Sierra Nevadas. Sometimes Californians shorten it to the Sierras because we add the definite article to everything like “THE 405.” Since Sierra means “mountain” in Spanish, when someone calls it the Sierra Mountain range they’re saying mountain mountain range. Anyway, it’s “the Sierras” or “Sierra Nevadas,” not Sierra mountains.

[@JaruWalks]

Awesome, thank you for the correction. I’ve heard people say the Sierras and the Sierra. “The Sierras” to me sounds intuitively correct, but “the Sierra” smells of being pedantically correct, like when someone says cacti instead of cactuses, or the data “show” instead of shows, or when someone on NPR pronounces Nicaragua like a fluent Spanish speaker. So the correct form would be “The Sierra Nevada” or “The Sierra” albeit less specific considering the Sierra could refer to the Sierra Madre in Mexico for example. I will try to use the Sierra Nevada in the future, though it just sounds wrong because it does not conjure up an image of mountains when said that way.

[@mikaelaolsen8835]

John Muir thouhgt it should be called "the range of light" because of how special and extra brilliant he found the sun ( probably moon too) light there

[@mattharvey8712]

Hey......the poles give ur arm work out.....I was a no pole guy for years.......now ....yep......

[@JaruWalks]

Very true

[@jeffdavidson9231]

Still enjoying your journey but have a question… been watching some other PCT hikers that are ahead of you and they have had to skip sections due to wildfires… with your desire to have a continuous footpath on your triple crown attempt what are your thoughts on that situation?

[@JaruWalks]

@@jeffdavidson9231 I actually layout the ground rules in the first video I uploaded called AT Winter Sobo Attempt, link to timestamp 7:05 below. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jl7Ncqiql8Rge5Isi=0D7YsFGcrztvGiLG&t=425

[@jeffdavidson9231]

@@JaruWalks Ok.. I will go back and watch again,been awhile since I’ve watched it. Keep rolling brother!

[@JaruWalks]

@@jeffdavidson9231 To add additional context. I have a few options: 1) Ignore the trail closure and hike through the closed trail if I think I can do so while remaining safe via bail out roads, 2) Hike an official detour route if one is available, 3) Hike my own bushwhack detour if the PCTA declares there is no detour available, and 4) shuttle around the fire. I’m personally opposed to hiking on trail if the trail is closed, not because I think I can’t do it, but because it sets a nasty precedent for anybody following in my footsteps. I am happy to hike an alternate route detour. If we’re quite literal, there are many sections of all three trails closed each year; so hiking the alternates to me is no problem. There becomes a problem when no alternate route exists, such as is the case with the 60 mile long park fire where 100 miles of trail is closed. In such case, your options are 1, 3 and 4. As I said, I won’t do 1. And I do consider 4 (shuttling around) to be breaking your footpath. Which only leaves option 3 to preserve your continuous footpath, or 4 breaking your continuous footpath but pursuing the CYTC. Lastly, there are sections of the trail that are seasonally closed. Those sections must be hiked continuously with your footpath in my opinion. The prime example is Katahdin on the AT is closed April-May, right when CYTCers arrive. So your choices there are arrive at open, or arrive early and wait. I explained I was trying to time my arrival with open, and I got lucky because it opened literally the day that I arrived. FYI they don’t tell you when it will open, other than Memorial Day weekend is the target, but this year it was June 2nd. So point here is, if I skipped katahdin and came back, or “hiked an alternate to elsewhere in Maine” in my heart it feels like I broke the footpath. These are all judgement calls. But I did at least lay these rules out in my first video, so that I could handcuffed to them all year, and measured against my own judgements. No magic, no changing anything down the line.

[@JaruWalks]

@@jeffdavidson9231 lastly, I don’t give anything away about anything coming down trail. But you will see that I have to navigate these exact challenges.

[@jeffdavidson9231]

@@JaruWalks I hear ya.. lots of obstacles to overcome in your very mind boggling logistics nightmare of a calendar year triple crown attempt..much respect and I wish you the best of luck!! I’m with ya in spirit all the way!