More than 1,500 people attempt to walk the entire John Muir Trail every year. A bit more than half of them succeed in a good year, with less than a third making it through in a year with natural ...

The John Muir Trail, or JMT, hovers around 8,000 feet of elevation for most of its 211 miles through California's Sierra Nevada range. Here's how to start planning your thru hike. ... Map: While you ...

Jeff Garmire has been backpacking most of his life, thru-hiking for 13 years, and he set the current fastest known time on the John Muir Trail in 2022. His 2019 book Free Outside is about hiking ...

Yosemite's John Muir Trail closed indefinitely following a massive rockfall that covered 1,000 feet of trail with boulders, trees and other debris. SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main ...

In October 1867, the 29-year-old naturalist John Muir, looking rather the worse for wear, stumbled into the tiny island community of Cedar Key, Fla. For 53 days straight, he had botanized his way ...

A stretch of the trail between the John Muir trail junction and the top of Vernal Fall will be inaccessible Mondays through Thursdays, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. View this post on Instagram.