[pct-l] permits

[Donna "L-Rod" Saufley]

Hmmm, I think that needs to be qualified a bit.  You don't need a Whitney sticker if you're accessing from the JMT's approach out of Crabtree.  You DO have to have a permit if you're staying overnight pretty much anywhere in the Sierras, or accessing the range through most side trails (ie., Cottonwood Pass, Kearsarge, etc.) and some of those areas have quotas. 

Access to Whitney from the eastern Portal side is the ONLY place I've seen a ranger on the trail actively checking for permits and bear cans.  I've heard that they make exceptions for PCT thru-hikers, but that's not something I would want to leave to chance.  If a resupply in Lone Pine using the Whitney Portal Trail is planned, it might not be a bad idea to get the Whitney sticker. 

L-Rod 



-----Original Message-----
>From: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>
>Sent: Nov 28, 2008 9:58 AM
>To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] permits
>
>  In 2007 the park rangers at the inter agency ranger station in Lone Pine said you only need a Whitney permit if you are entering or exiting via Whitney Portal. If you are just making a Whitney detour from Crabtree Meadows "no permit required". I suggest that you resupply via Onion Valley. Who wants to carry a pee bag for the next hundred miles any way. 
> 
>Robert
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