[pct-l] permits

[Robert W. Freed]

You are right, of course. But in '07 the ranger at the inter agency station wouldn't issue me a permit for Whitney via the west side. I even insisted. He told me I didn't need one and he thought me strange for even asking if I was not hiking through the portal. The caveat is that I was hiking in from Kennedy Meadows and I was only day hiking Whitney and exiting via Kings Canyon.

--- On Fri, 11/28/08, Donna "L-Rod" Saufley <dsaufley at sprynet.com> wrote:

From: Donna "L-Rod" Saufley <dsaufley at sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] permits
To: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>, pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 10:21 AM

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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