This was our scheduled rest day at Muir Trail Ranch. We had arrived early the day before, therefore the descriptions and many photos of our cabin and one of the hot springs can be found here, in this previous entry.
Our rest day was spent lounging in the other private hot spring and hanging about the lounge. The lounge housed Honey, the Ranch's cat. The girls loved Honey and took a thousand photos of her...they even loved her when she brought in a chipmunk and ate it behind the fireplace. This feline is sweet (to humans, anyway), so give her a gentle pet on the head when you visit.
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| Honey, the cat of Muir Trail Ranch |
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| Private hot spring |
Our bodies felt fine and ready to roll by the end of our stay. Sage's cough was almost completely gone, and we looked forward to the nine days ahead of us. No more rest stops, no more "zero days." From here, we would travel over the wildest, roughest, most isolated section of the John Muir Trail before climbing up and over the highest mountain in the continental United States. We had planned to do this section in ten days, but we were easily able to make it in nine. The scenery was gorgeous and the weather couldn't have been better...but you'll see the photos in the posts to come.
The next entry, detailing our journey from Muir Trail Ranch to McClure Meadow, will be posted by Wednesday, October 29.
Muir Trail Ranch looks like a destination by itself! Trish, I am curious if you ever had trouble finding water sources on the trail b/c of the drought. Did you sometimes have to load up with lots of water to get through a particular stretch? And did you carry a filter or use tablets?
ReplyDeleteHi Dianne, we never had trouble finding water. Usually, water was never more than a five or six miles away. We always carried one or two liters of water each, since that's what we're used to doing when we hike at home. We never had a problem. We used a Sawyer Squeeze system for filtering water. I've mixed reviews on that, which you can read about in the Gear section of this blog.
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