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@@heliscat Maybe the JMT is in your future?😄 It was definitely a great hike! We’ve never been to Pika Lake… only admired it from a distance. Looks beautiful over there! Happy Trails!

Hi, yeah we’re heading up to do the final section of the JMT NOBO in a few weeks 🤙🏼

@@navsari1994Thanks so much! Hope you can get out there and do this hike. Even though this was 5 years ago, we still talk about it (a lot 😄) and still think of what a great adventure we had doing it! Happy trails!

@@AdventuresoftheLandNorth Glad you liked the video and thanks so much! You have plenty of “window” open! (We’re just about the same age!) Happy trails!😃

Thanks so much and glad you enjoyed the video! We were actually lucky that Hank’s family had planned a trip to Yosemite Valley the same time we were finishing up the hike, so we just rode back with his wife to our van. You can also take shuttles all over the eastern Sierras (including to and from Yosemite - originally we were going to do that). On a couple of our other trips, we took shuttles and it worked out perfect! Happy trails!😄

Thank you so much! We're so happy you enjoyed it :) Are you planning the same or similar route?

@@chooseoutside8586 I want to hike from Bishop pass to Mammoth too, but after watching your video, Muir pass seems to be no joke and i need to strengthen my body first. 😅 I'd rather hike Thousand Island Lake for this summer.

Southbound from Mammoth to Bishop Pass would be a great route. We found that it’s definitely a little easier going sobo for that section. But, Thousand Island Lake is gorgeous and you’d love that too!😄

@@chooseoutside8586 Oh, that is so helpful. Thank you! 😊

Thanks for the tips!

Awesome, that’s so exciting!😄You’re going to have such an amazing time out there! Where are you starting? We’re doing our last section hike NOBO this summer from Cottonwood Pass to Onion Valley. Maybe we’ll bump into you😊

Thanks! So glad you liked it :) Thousand Island lake is gorgeous, I think you'll really like that lake. We camped at Deer Creek, then Rosalie Lake, then Island pass, Lyell Canyon, and finally Sunrise high Sierra camp for the last night. We enjoyed these spots, and recommend them. When we're planning, we map out reasonable distances, and also take passes, water availability and terrain into consideration. Enjoy your hike and let us know if you have more questions! Happy trails

Thank you so much😊 Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you Gary- so glad you enjoy the videos! Thanks for the tip, we're always looking for more copyright free music :)

Thanks so much for your kind words! :) Oh wow! We almost ran into you two. Yeah, definitely no joke on that Rosalie climb! Hope you guys had a great time and maybe we'll see you on the trail next summer! (We'll be finishing up our last NOBO section!)

@legodad Thank you! We appreciate your kind words and are happy you enjoyed the video! 😊 Yes would be great to meet y’all someday out there! We’d love the info 👍🏻 email is David at chooseoutside.com

Sounds like a great route Gary! Love evolution lake and the surrounding area

Hey Steve! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Yes the Sierra Nevada mountains are beautiful! We’re looking forward to getting out there and doing a section hike of this same trail going Northbound this time! (This video is from our SOBO hike). Yeah great talking to you too and talk again soon 🤙🏼

Yes they do! Lol! We fell victim to them as well!

So glad you love the video's Tim! That's so great that you got back out there! No, we haven't done that one yet, but it's on our list to do hopefully soon. If you have any tips that you remember for that trail, we'd love to hear from you. Take care and happy trails!

Hi Tanisha! Too funny… we didn’t even know there was close captions for RUclips videos!😂 The mosquitos were crazy at the beginning of the trip, but that can be pretty typical. Jumping in that water is cold, but it feels SO dang good!😅 The Sierra Nevada mountains get some crazy weather up there during the summer! One minute it’s beautiful and sunny and the next it’s hailing or raining! (If you check out our Onion Valley to South Lake video, we hit a HUGE hail storm!😳) As for the temps, we’re at a pretty high elevation most of the time but at times have still seen high 80’s and at night it could get down into the 30’s. (During July/Aug). Hit the 20’s in September!🥶 We’re so glad you enjoyed the video and it was great talking to you earlier today!😊

It really is so cool to do the hike in the opposite direction! 😀 It really does feel like a whole new trail in parts. Haha… I still can’t believe he brought balloons out there and I didn’t even see him blowing them up!😂 Thanks for checking out our videos!😊

@@chooseoutside8586 those SNEAKY OL HUSBANDS !!!!!!!!!!! lol 8)

@@tracykooken2606 😂😂😂

You’re too kind😊 Thank you so much! It really is so beautiful in the Sierras and we’re super excited to get out there again this summer!😄

Thank you!😊 It was definitely the hike of a lifetime and it’s going to be really hard to beat that one!😀 Totally looking forward to getting out there again this summer on a shorter trip😁

Hi, We started at North Lake at the Piute Pass trailhead in Bishop creek. Ended at South Lake trailhead at South Lake, then got a ride back to our vehicle at North Lake. Thank you- yeah it is a beautiful area for sure! Enjoy your trip!

@@chooseoutside8586 thanks so much ! cheers!

Thanks so much!😊 On this trip we started out around 32 lbs (David) and 30 lbs for me. That was including 6 days of food. Have a great time with your mom and sister this summer! 😃🤙🏻

Jessica, why do I feel like we're facebook friends? I'll go look, but your name is so familiar!

@@chooseoutside8586 Thank you this is super helpful!

@@chooseoutside8586 Haha I’ll have to check! =)

Thank you so much! We haven’t done the Loop yet, but we’d love to that soon! I can imagine that your trip will always hold a special place in your heart. ❤️

No, we didn’t have the pleasure of serving, but thank you for your kind comment! 😊

I’m gonna bet there’s a lot of things wrong with me, but knowing where I can take my dog into certain parts of the Sierra’s that I’ve been hiking for 30+ years isn’t one of them! 😂 I’d suggest you go visit the ranger station and get educated on where dogs are and are not allowed. But this area we hiked with our dog is dog friendly

@@chooseoutside8586 i was looking for backpacking in sierra vids with dogs for exactly this reason, how do i go about finding which places allow dogs and which dont? why do they have to make it so confusing!! lol

@@solukhumbu911 It definitely can be! National Parks don’t allow dogs, but it’s (mostly) okay in the National Forests. Dogs are allowed in the John Muir Wilderness areas too. If you’re still not sure though, it’s a good idea to check with the Forest Service. Check out the Alltrails app… they have good info on dog friendly trails in the John Muir Wilderness, etc. Have a great time out there with your pup!🐾

@@chooseoutside8586 thanks so much , u guys are too kind to respond to ignorant comments with such positivity . i have enjoyed ur other sierra backpacking vids as well, i hope u continue to make more with ur pup!

@@solukhumbu911 Thanks so much😊 It’s just too bad that some people jump to conclusions and get upset instead of just asking questions. Hopefully we’ll be making another video with Callie soon. (Might need to wait a bit for the Sierra hikes though!❄️) Take care!

That is awesome! We're so happy that we were able to help you prepare and have a successful hike! :) We'll look up your book! Happy trails

Wow! Thank you so much for the nice comments and for following us! It's so nice to hear from another husband and wife backpacking couple. We cracked up about the "long lost brother" comment... too funny! I love that we can do this together and he rarely gets on my nerves... LOL! Seriously though, that's awesome that you both will be out there again this summer and on a section hike! We just got our permits and we'll be heading in at Duck Pass trailhead and north up to Happy Isles in August. The amount of water out there this year will be unbelievable! :) Maybe we'll run into you guys! As for our cameras, we used our GoPro 7 Black and our iphones (8 and SE). For our video editing, we use Wondershare Filmora. We hope you guys have an awesome time out there this summer and happy trails! :)

@@chooseoutside8586 We will definitely be on the lookout for you two! Odds are our first hike will be from South Lake/Bishop Pass down to Whitney, we have a few contingency permits and as soon as we hear the passes aren't overly dangerous, it's game on (my uneducated guess is last week of July). Hoping to knock out a NOBO section later in the summer if we can get that Whitney part done early. Thanks for the information on the camera and software, we are going to *attempt* to record our journey this year and if you ever see the video you'll see the similarities, down to the constant ramen that my wife eats and how you stop to appreciate each and every beautiful moment. I can't wait to see it with my own eyes because I know all too well that cameras just can't really capture anything close to what you see and feel out there on that trail. Safe travels and perhaps we'll see you somewhere on trail!

@@LegoDad That would be awesome to knock out 2 sections this summer! Yeah, the snow will be crazy until late in the season this year for sure... Bishop Pass seems to hold on to it longer (from past experiences) than other passes. We'll definitely look for your video if you make one! (And please shoot us a message if you do!) You're so right though, seeing everything with your own eyes is SO different than pics. Safe travels to both of you too! #ramenrocks 😀

@@chooseoutside8586 We'll be sure to link the video if end up making one. Once we receive our trail names we'll likely make a channel based upon that. What has to be really challenging is trying to take it all in with your own eyes and not spend key moments looking through a camera, and being our first time on that trail I'm a bit iffy on how well I will be documenting this. We got all the equipment now, but there's that side of me that says "walk it first, film it second". We'll see though, there are no guarantees in life and with us being over 50 we want to treat every hike as if it is our last (however for the record, we intend to be hiking well into our 80s!).

Hey brother! David here- thank you for the nice comments- like Dani said, it would be great to meet ya'll someday sooner than later :) Two sections this summer would be so great! We're excited about all of this glorious snowfall going on up there, but at the same time, will likely do some early summer camping with day hikes and push our packing toward end of summer. On the filming, I'm sure you'll do fine- of course it depends on the type of video you're making, but realistically you're just filming highlights, with many hours of the day left to take in. Take care, D&D

Yes it is!😊

Thanks so much Kevin and glad you enjoyed the videos!😊 As for getting in shape for the hike, we’re pretty active on our mountain bikes, do a little running and do some shorter local hikes on the weekends. We dropped our car off at South Lake and took the small shuttle that runs almost every day (at set times)down to Bishop. From there, we grabbed another shuttle (Eastern Sierra Transit) to Independence. One of the friends that we started the hike with was arriving the same time as us so she picked us up in town and drove us to the trailhead campground. Hope this helps!

Thanks so much!😊

Thank you! Cheers!

We couldn't agree with you more! Happy New Year, and we hope you're able to get out to the Sierra's this summer on an epic hike!

Thank you! We're so glad you enjoyed it! I think if you take your time, all of the climbs are do-able- it just depends on how much time you have. There's plenty of water the whole way, which we certainly appreciated :) We just do this for fun, so we're so happy to hear you enjoyed our silliness while trying to make the video! haha Happy trails, and please let us know if you have any specific questions that might help you decide on a trip. Happy New Year!

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video 😊 We agree with you… we did the entire JMT SOBO in 2019 and it was awesome, but wanted to do the trail NOBO as well. We don’t have the time to take off to hike it all at once, so we’re putting together smaller section hikes and plan on completing it by 2024. For planning all the hikes, we use the Tom Harrison map for the whole JMT. We just plan our days based on daily miles, passes, water availability, etc. Not sure about websites specifically for information, but we are on the FB John Muir Trail group and got a lot of information (and can ask questions) from that group. Let us know if you have any other questions. Have fun hiking this season!😃

Well, the mosquitos were crazy bad on the downside of Piute Pass near Hutchinson Meadow. After that, they were still around but tolerable. We had great temps at night and not too hot during the day. Our July trip we did the year after this one was a lot hotter.

Glad you liked it! Thank you for watching! 😃

Thanks so much for your kind words Rob! So glad you liked the video.😊 We used both our GoPro 7 Black and our iPhones 8 and 6. As for the editing program, we used Wondershare Filmora. Happy hiking!😄

That's so great to hear Jerry! Thank you for watching and your kind words! :)

It certainly is!

Hi! We got a permit for the River Trail out of Agnew Meadows. Yes, you need a permit if you will be camping. Day hiking is allowed without a permit for this area. Have a great time out there!

Yes!! It was nice taking with you too! Hope you had a great hike!😄

@@chooseoutside8586 Yes I did. Here is my video I just finished at that time. ruclips.net/video/bFutDO-r4DU/видео.html

Yes it was!😄

@@chooseoutside8586 nice to meet you