[pct-l] Muir Trail Ranch

[reynolds@iLAN.com (Reynolds, WT)]

Muir Trail Ranch does NOT cater to hikers EXCEPT to provide food resupply
[for a fee] and a limited store. They do NOT make money providing resupply.
It is merely a service that they provide to JMT hikers. [$45 is chump change
considering that they rent the ranch for $9,000 per week!] Don't expect a
big hello, a warm hug and a free beer like Butch did. Sorry. That being
said, I would always resupply there because it is much more convient than
VVR. I would get my beer at Mammoth.

I would hike this route by keeping food outside the bear canister using bear
boxs for the first fifty miles [to Woods Creek] and use a single bear
canister the second fifty miles. I have, in fact, done a sixty mile hike
with my wife using a single standard canister and I hike 6-8 miles per day.
[ Walking 16 MPD I might target Crabtree, Center Basin and Rae Lakes bear
boxs] 

The larger Bearicade is hige and relatively light but expensive and hard to
pack. The way that I carry it is to strip the pack bag [saves 3 pounds] off
my old Jansport D-3 frame pack and lash the canister to the frame. [The
loaded canister weighs 26-28 pounds by itself!]. I then lash a couple of
heavy items under it [Tent, bag etc] and my partner [wife] carrys all the
small stuff.

-----Original Message-----
From: The Dude [mailto:dude@coruscant.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 5:29 PM
To: java2@ix.netcom.com; pct-l@backcountry.net
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Muir Trail Ranch


I experienced the same thing at the JM trail Ranch in 99. 

Tom - BTW, i think i met you at VVR that same year.  Are you a friend of
Lois W?

> Tom Hopkins <java2@ix.netcom.com> "pct-l@backcountry.net"
<pct-l@backcountry.net> [pct-l] Muir Trail RanchDate: Tue, 08 Jan 2002
16:32:26 -0800
>
>I resupplied at Muir Trail Ranch in '99 and found them unfriendly and
>distant. Like someone said, they are much more interested in the dudes
>that come to the dude ranch to even talk to a  hiker. My partner and I
>had 2-3 questions and we got the brush off. If you take $45 from someone
>to hold a package of food, you should be able to answer a few
>questions.  I would never resupply there again.
>Tom in Sacramento
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