Any additional weight will begin screaming at you not far into the switchbacks.
Double or triple that screaming-at-you factor on the uphill half-mile between the JMT junction and Trail Crest on the way back!
CaT
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
