Anyone here ever done the Pohono trail at Yosemite?
I won a wilderness permit in a lottery this week, it’s about 14 miles.
I’ve never backpacked before, but have done a few hikes around Yosemite (4 mile, mirror lake, another one I can’t remember)
Just looking for your guys’ tips and advice for my first backpacking trip on this trail.
picrel is from mirror lake last summer.
the only good thing about living in Fresno is it’s proximity to Yosemite and Kings Canyon
This is a map of the trail for those who are curious
I think the first night I’m gonna camp around Dewey point
>Land of the Free
>Home of the lotteries to be allowed/out/
only in national parks and there’s really only a couple of parks that even do it
Yosemite is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Over 4,000,000 people visit a year (a huge portion of which being foreigners) it’s how we keep the land pristine.
Would you rather have thousands of people crowding each and every trail up, destroying the landscape, leaving their garbage, etc
Maybe if we banned foreigners from visiting and kept it to ourselves we wouldn’t have to, but as long as the US has the most beautiful wilderness - the lotteries will keep it safe from brain dead bozos, litterbugs and moronic Chinese people.
>Would you rather have thousands of people crowding each and every trail up, destroying the landscape, leaving their garbage, etc
You've never been to Yosemite, have you. Spoilers: it's already like this.
I live in oakhurst I’ve been there countless times. You just don’t know how to do it, you probably go in the middle of June like all the other morons
as far as trash, they seem to handle it pretty well.
I don't go at all, because Yosemite is a shithole, because of the reasons I listed. There are plenty of areas outside the park that are free to access and have no people in them. If you actually went PrepHole you would know that...
this board is so gay sometimes lmfao
trying so hard to prove you’re “real” PrepHole, it’s worse than PrepHole and its sexpats here
Yeah, I'll keep calling larpers out where I see them.
Doubling down on the fact that you don't go PrepHole just makes me pity you.
calling out “larpers” on a Mongolian crab fishing forum with maybe 90 people on it at any given time is a cool thing to do man you’re a real outdoorsman for trying to gatekeep fricking nature
i pity you for being like this
Great. Spoilers: I'm going to keep doing it.
>gatekeeping is... LE BAD
>iPhone file name
You donate to the REI Cooperative Action fund, don't you?
Given his obsession with Yosemite and how hard he got triggered over it, probably. That's the exact kind of city gay that would guzzle REI's cum.
How do you guzzle a store’s cum
Or do you personally sew and craft every single item you use while PrepHole
>iPhone file name
What? lmfao, is it 2013 in your head?
You actually giving a frick what phone someone uses means you’re definitely under 18
plenty of areaa, free to access, nowhere near as scenic and full of Hmongs.
have at it anon
Oi you got a loicense to be outside?
do you know how many Chinese homosexuals would be swarming Yosemite if it didn’t have a reservation system?
>west coast
>need to play the lottery just to hike
lots of wilderness here in the east where you don't need to plan it in advance at all you can just go
you really don’t need to play the lottery, it’s not hard to get a reservation if you know what you’re doing
and all your wilderness doesn’t compare to Yosemite in the slightest, which is the only park that even uses a lottery system.
blue ridge mountains suck ass
"blue ridge mountains" covers a lot of terrain, much of which you have never seen
the plateau is quite nice
No it really isn’t
glorified foothills
it really is nice the hills are quite verdant and moist
>All of the west coast is Yosemite National Park
Yosemite needs reservations because it is fricking Yosemite you moron.
definitely do a practice backpack, 1 nighter and no need to make it more than 2 miles in to camp. Bring bear can, bear spray, freeze dried food is easiest but also expensive, bug spray, tent/sleeping bag/ sleeping pad, 10 essentials, trekking poles help if you know how to use them. adjust them so your elbows hit a right angle when you touch the ground. bring sweets like jolly ranchers to suck on while on the trail, gives a little sugar boost and helps keep from dry mouth. bring plenty of water and hopefully youll have a water fill first. good luck! the practice backpack will help you get any nervousness out the way