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These closure days may be quite a surprise for people who just walk in to the Visitor Center and hope for a walk-in permit on those days.

...and for people who are coming off the JMT between Sept. 4-7 after a 3-week southbound thru-hike!

Looks like I'll be exiting via the MR, or else postponing my exit until the morning of Sept. 8, which will cut into my post-hike buffer. But then, what are buffers for if not to use now and then?

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)