Year of Muir - Hiking the John Muir Trail on YouTube

  • Posted on 2 July 2015
  • By George Watland

 

This 90 minute video covers Jeremy Evans 211 mile solo hike on The John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney. Photo slide show with narrated videos and time lapses. For more info visit www.evansdp.com
 

End of the John Muir Trail at Mt. Whitney.
 

Muir Hut in Kings Canyon.
 

 

Jeremy Evans has been an avid backpacker and camper since he was twelve years of age.  Obsessed with being outdoors in nature, he spends an average seventy nights in a tent, each year.  He’s read nearly all of John Muir’s books and considers Muir one of the most essential and influential individuals of nature and conservation.  After hiking virtually every trail in the Sierra Nevada High Country as well as the majority of the John Muir Trail in segments, he decided to solo hike the trail in its entirety, in honor of Muir.  He documented the trip in detail so that others could have the opportunity to appreciate the vast beauty and grandeur that the trail has to offer.  

 

John Muir Trail, Yosemite to Mount Whitney. 3 Weeks of Photos and Narrated Videos

 

This ninety minute video covers a brief history of the trail, preparation, and a first person narrative of the journey.  It includes still photos, videos, and time lapses documenting the trip southbound from Yosemite to Mount Whitney.  Jeremy averaged thirteen miles a day and completed the trail in nineteen days.  Sixteen of those day were hiking.  He spent the other three sporadic days in his most beloved areas of the trail: Mammoth, Evolution Valley and Rae Lakes.  Follow him through this video as he begins his journey in Yosemite Valley; climbing over ten passes through out Yosemite, Mammoth, Ansel Adams Wilderness, John Muir Wilderness, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. 

 

Jeremy is a Sierra Club leader for the Angeles Chapter Backpacking Committee and participates in multiple backpacking trips each year and is also involved with the camera committee.  He creates and presents interpretative programs for the Sierra Club and the park service in Yosemite Valley at the LeConte Memorial Lodge, the Sierra Clubs official home in Yosemite.  In addition to the Sierra Nevada, Jeremy often backpacks in Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Grand Canyon and Arches National Parks.  Keep an eye out for his future backpacking trips in the Angeles Chapter Schedule of Activities.

 

Jeremy continually celebrates John Muir’s life and legacy.  In the past year he attended a Life of Muir Celebration and has visited the Muir house and gravesite on several occasions.

 

 

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