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WanderingJim wrote:Looking at the current trailheads report, there are openings in early September for both Glen Aulin trailheads (sept 3 for staying at the Glen Aulin camp and more starting dates for the pass through option). https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/fulltrailheads.htm
I'd give the wilderness reservations line a call tomorrow and go over the route options with them to see what might be doable.
AlmostThere wrote:The wilderness permit situation has changed, these days you have to get there the day before you want to start hiking to get the walk in permits.
Here is what I suggest:
Sit down with a map and figure out three trailheads you'd be ok starting at, by checking the full trailheads list and finding dates and trailheads that have open spots. Rank them, and fill out a wilderness permit form. Fax it. If you get one of those options you're golden. Reserved permits can be picked up at any wilderness office.
If you don't get one of the desired routes, you can try for walk in permits the morning before - you have two chances. First chance is for permits for that same day, that were reserved by others who never showed up for them. They release those at 10 am. at 11 am, you have a chance at a walk in for the following day. You need to be at the specific wilderness office that has jurisdiction over the trailheads you want, so your trailhead choices that you ranked in order of preference should be in the same general part of the park.
AlmostThere wrote:A pass through permit means you won't be stopping to camp at Glen Aulin. You'll take a campsite out along the trail beyond it. There are often two quotas for a popular trail that has a designated campground on it, such as Little Yosemite Valley - for Happy Isles there is a quota for LYV and another for LYV passthrough to give folks who are planning to go beyond LYV a chance at a permit.
Phil wrote:You want a straight Glen Aulin permit, then state your exit. With the pass-thru, in order to stay on route, you would end up at McGee Lake, which isn't very nice, and will probably be dry anyhow, or up around Cathedral Creek.
Phil wrote:You have to remember that with a Glen Aulin pass-thru it's not that you "don't" camp at Glen Aulin, it's that you aren't allowed to under the terms of the permit. No camping before the HSC, and at least a one mile radius outside of it. That either puts you downriver at least to California Falls, or up the May Lake trail.
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