[pct-l] No resupply in Lone Pine?

[Jeffrey Olson]

Trail Pass is only 1000' drop and a couple miles from the PCT to 
Horseshoe Meadows, which is at 10,000'.  It's the highest trailhead in 
the Sierra (I believe).  Hitching out is hit and miss - kind of like 
Onion Valley - it's all day hikers or campers or horse people. As Brick 
said, there are no quotas as there are at Cottonwood Pass/Lakes 
Trailhead.  You can hitch or take a taxi or a shuttle back to Horseshoe 
Meadows from Lone Pine.

When you get back on the trail hiking south you'll be ridge walking with 
stupendous views to the west.  Just before you enter Sequoia National 
Park there is a tarn a couple hundred yards up and 200' vertical east of 
the trail that makes for a great camp.  It's on all the maps.  It was my 
favorite campspot on that stretch of the trail - way above the trail and 
isolated - big views of Whitney Meadow and beyond to the Kern River 
Canyon and the Great Western Divide further west...  Can't beat that area...

Jeff
Arcata, CA
>> It appears that you can no longer exit the PCT through Whitney Portal to
>> get to Lone Pine (http://www.pcta.org/discover-the-trail/permits/ <
>> http://www.pcta.org/discover-the-trail/permits/> see Whitney section). I
>> checked the Inyo site, but it is fairly confusing. It looks like you can
>> get a permit to pass through the portal (without going through the lottery)
>> but only if you don't go up Whitney. If you want to go up, then you have to
>> try the lottery. But, if you are doing the PCT and want to go up Whitney,
>> you can do that without a permit, you just cannot exit through the portal
>> to Lone Pine. Also, it would appear that the Inyo permits are all for
>> specific dates and when doing the PCT, who knows when you will actually be
>> there?
>>
>> So, if I am reading this correctly, removing Lone Pine from the options
>> appears to make it a very long haul from Kennedy to Muir Trail Ranch (174mi
>> & 29,178ft elevation gain). Even longer if you want to make the side trip
>> up Whitney. The only other option for resupply looks to be Independence but
>> it is the difference between a 24mi off trail hike to Independence vs. a
>> 66mi hike on to Muir Trail Ranch. Any thoughts on what is best to do on
>> this section? Is the best option to just suck it up and carry a huge bag of
>> food and go all the way to Muir Trail Ranch? Or, are there any better
>> options?
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