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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about JMT, Minimize, gilberto with the genre: Travel, United States?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'John Muir Trail Data Book'
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: John Muir Trail Data Book
  The John Muir Trail (or, more simply, the JMT) is one of the world's premier long-distance hiking trails. A little more than 220 miles in length, it traverses the spine of California's Sierra Nevada, passing through superb mountain scenery. This is a land of 13,000- and 14,000- foot peaks, of soaring granite cliffs, of lakes by the thousands, and of canyons 5,000 feet deep. The trail passes near roads only in Tuolumne Meadows and Devils Postpile, otherwise winding through remote mountain landscape. Part of the beauty of this long-distance walk is that the landscape continually changes as you travel from Happy Isles (in eastern Yosemite Valley) to Whitney Portal (west of the town of Lone Pine, in the Owens Valley). Each day you will find new wonders to captivate your attention—rounded domes in Tuolumne Meadows, volcanic features near Devils Postpile, magical hemlock forests near Silver Pass, dashing cascades along Bear Creek, the glacial landscape of Evolution Basin, the near-vertical peaks of the Palisades, carpets of alpine flowers around Pinchot Pass, spectacular lake basins such as the Rae Lakes, scattered foxtail pines on Bighorn Plateau, and of course the views from the summit of Mt. Whitney, California's tallest peak. The Sierra is an especially lovely area for a multi-week hike, for it is blessed with the mildest, sunniest climate of any major mountain range in the world. Though rain does fall in the summer, it seldom lasts more than an hour or two, and the sun is out and shining most hours of the day. Most likely the greatest challenge you will face is the logistics of resupplying food because the southern 160 miles do not pass a road, and for the final 110 miles you do not even pass close to a food resupply "depot." You are, of course, not the only person to have heard of these attractions and will encounter people daily, but the trail really is a thin line through a vast land; with little effort you can always camp on your own if you leave the trail.
  The introductory material provides information on three essential topics: how to obtain a wilderness permit, how to get yourself to and from the two endpoints using either public transportation or a private shuttle, and how to arrange food resupplies along the trail. All the phone numbers and Web addresses required for your planning are supplied. Also provided are maps of Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, and Lone Pine to orient you at trailheads.
  Next are 17 topographic maps, onto which trail junctions and campsites (listed beginning) have been plotted.
  And finally, I wish you a wonderful trip along the JMT. Enjoy the superb surroundings as you traipse along a trail that commemorates one of the world's most influential conservationists.
  All trailheads accessing the JMT require a wilderness permit and have quotas. For all Sierra wilderness areas, permits are issued for the trailhead and date at which you begin your hike. You do not need to obtain a new permit after exiting the wilderness for a food resupply. If you are getting a permit issued by the Inyo or Sierra National Forests and are exiting at Whitney Portal, you are subject to Mt. Whitney Zone exit quotas (25 people per day). A word of warning: Quotas for reserved permits fill very quickly in summer. Reserve your permit as soon as they become available and, if possible, have alternate, weekday start dates as potential backups.
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conversations.value: June Lake EST buses stop at the intersection of US 395 and CA 158. YARTS buses stop at the Rush Creek Trailhead.
  Independence Southbound EST buses stop at the post office, and northbound EST buses stop at the courthouse.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Mammoth, Lakes, Inn, including.
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conversations.value: June Lake EST buses stop at the intersection of US 395 and CA 158. YARTS buses stop at the Rush Creek Trailhead. 
  Mammoth Lakes EST buses stop at McDonald's (near the east end of Mammoth Lakes), and YARTS buses stop at many locations, including the Mammoth Mountain Inn and Shilo Inn. 
  Independence Southbound EST buses stop at the post office, and northbound EST buses stop at the courthouse.
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conversations.value: The maps were created from the latest digital elevation models available from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in combination with additional data layers from the USGS, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Park Service. The trail data for the JMT and about 75% of the side trails are derived from GPS tracks that I have collected and then edited to more perfectly match the trail as visible on aerial photos available through the USGS (via ExpertGPS) and Google Earth. GPS tracks for a few additional side trails came from other hikers who kindly shared their data with me. The remaining side trails have been traced off USGS topo maps. This section also includes a sketch map of trails in the Devils Postpile and Reds Meadows area.
  The following table provides a selection of campsites along the JMT. It is not comprehensive, but it includes most campsites that are visible from the trail. Lacking fire rings, campsites above treeline tend to be smaller and more hidden; a few are included here, but the selection of high-elevation campsites is more sparing because many cannot sustain daily use, as would occur if they were listed here; more choices are available with a little searching. Remember that these are the coordinates where you leave the trail, not where you camp. You must be 100 feet from trail and water to camp (or 25 feet for established campsites in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks). UTM coordinates indicate the location to leave the trail. If a campsite is significantly off the trail, the actual campsite location is given in parentheses. A disclaimer: UTM coordinates may be off by as much as 50 feet (15 meters), especially in deep canyons or forested areas. And remember that your GPS may also be off a little.
  There is much discussion about how to get to and from the Vermilion Valley Resort, generally known as VVR. This table clarifies the distances and elevation change required for the three routes between the Lake Edison junction and the Bear Creek junction.
  North-to-south distances are in miles from Happy Isles, while south-to-north distances are in miles from Whitney Portal.
  From childhood, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Wenk has hiked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with her family. Since she started college, she has found excuses to spend every summer in the Sierra, with its beguiling landscape, abundant flowers, and near-perfect weather. One interest lies in biological research, and she worked first as a research assistant for others and then completed her own PhD thesis research on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. However, much of the time, she hikes simply for leisure. Obsessively wanting to explore every bit of the Sierra, she has hiked thousands of on- and off-trail miles and climbed more than 600 peaks in the mountain range. Many of her wanderings are now directed to gather data for several Wilderness Press titles and to introduce her two young daughters to the wonders of the mountains. For them as well, the Sierra, and especially Yosemite, has become a favorite location. Although she will forever consider Bishop, California, home, Wenk is currently living in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, Douglas, and daughters, Eleanor and Sophia. There she is working as a research fellow at Macquarie University and enjoying Australia's exquisite eucalyptus forests, vegetated slot canyons, and wonderful birdlife—except during the Northern Hemisphere summer, which she continues to spend exploring the Sierra.