I do apologize, but I felt that you very clearly/primarily were concerned with "buying" a map. In fact, inquiring about a detailed map is the thread title you chose.
Coushlash wrote:Head south-east on Sunrise Lakes trail to where it meets the John Muir Trail.
Camp overnight.
Head north on the Sunrise Lakes trail, hike south over Clouds Rest back to the John Muir Trail intersection.
Camp overnight.
This where you completely lost me. If you're already at altitude on the Sunrise Creek Trail, there is no direct intersection that meets the JMT until the CRXJMT junction at Sunrise Creek (past CR), or if you drop down to the JMT via the Forsyth Trail. You've made a big series of loops all over up there when you should logically be using that altitude and north approach to CR that you're already on and taken the summit already, THEN go down and make camp for your climb to HD the next day, and THEN exit out. My preference, for what it's worth to you (I'll also risk assuming...nothing at all), would be to skirt the edge of Tenaya Canyon and use my altitude to traverse over to the sub-dome of HD, but you'll be cross country for that, and I can't/won't send you there without you having that "detailed map". Even as a standard route, without my suggested diversion/shortcut, what you propose still makes no sense. Call it "training" if you like, but it lacks efficiency of movement and use of energy. And as much as you might be totally capable of it, I think you're seriously underestimating the rather notorious difficulty of those climbs to do it your way. But fine.
Basically, what you're doing is a classic HSC loop from TM and Glen Aulin up through May Lake and Sunrise, but then skipping out to do CR/HD. So yes, it is rather 'generic'. It aint no big shake, but on the basis of where you'll be and when you'll be there, CR is first on your route leg. What I'm reading is that you're backtracking to take out a summit where you essentially already were the day before...and, you're then again reversing direction after that and headed down to Happy Isles. Sorry, but while it is your hike, it doesn't make sense to someone that knows that area extremely well.
And also, as much as you might think that I'm somehow trying to undermine you for the sake of whatever, you might want to rethink using the Mist Trail as your exit while wearing a multi-day pack. In this, I doubt you'll get any differing opinions from those you think of as far more helpful than you think I'm being.
"Ill-informed"...nope. Not in the least. If not the "$$$$$", why else not "buy" and carry a map? Does it weigh too much?