Miscellaneous
Back in Mammoth Lakes, his staging area for the JMT backpack, Jim makes final preparations. He has choreographed things so that, for the first segment, 75 miles from Tuolumne Meadows to Vermilion Valley Resort, he’ll alternate two nights in the backcountry with one night in civilization. This offers him multiple chances to “opt out”, for whatever reason, should he need to.