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The John Muir Trail (JMT) is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, passing through Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. It is named after John Muir , a naturalist.
The segment of the John Muir Trail which traverses Mather Pass was completed by the U.S. Forest Service during the summer of 1937, using three trail camps to construct 11.25 miles of the trail at the cost of roughly $1,400 per mile in 1937 USD. It was the final segment of the trail to be built. [6]
The terrain around John Muir Memorial County Park is flat and is sparsely populated, [3] with the nearest large town being Portage, located 17.5 km to the south. The area around John Muir Memorial County Park is surrounded by farmland. [4] The climate is hemiboreal, [5] with an average temperature of 7 °C (45 °F).
At 13,153 feet (4,009 m), Forester Pass is the highest point along the Pacific Crest Trail. It is also the southernmost of the six high mountain passes above 11,000 feet along the John Muir Trail, with (in order from north to south) Donohue Pass , Muir Pass , Mather Pass , Pinchot Pass , and Glen Pass .
The Thumb is a 13,356-foot-elevation (4,071-meter) mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Inyo County of northern California. [3] It is situated in the Palisades area of the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest.
It is situated in the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Sierra National Forest. Graveyard Peak ranks as the 535th-highest summit in California, [ 3 ] and topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises over 2,300 feet (700 meters) above Devils Bathtub in approximately one mile.
Mount Senger is a 12,286-foot-elevation (3,745 meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Fresno County of northern California, United States. [4] It is set within the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Sierra National Forest.
The most common approach to Mount Lyell is from Tuolumne Meadows on a highly traveled section of the John Muir Trail.The round trip is approximately 25 miles (40 km) and involves 4,500 feet (1,370 m) of elevation gain when starting from the Tuolumne Wilderness Office.