I used Taboose Pass to exit the JMT a few years ago. I was in a pretty bad mood to begin with, but I hated every step of it. It was miles and miles of hiking on loose grapefruit to watermelon-sized rocks. There were at least half a dozen water crossings where I had to take off my boots and wade (July 2011, a high-water year). At the bottom were several more miles of trail through roasting desert scrub, with plague warning signs at the trailhead. Then I had to hike miles more on the forest service road to reach I-395 and hitchhike back to civilization. Did I mention that I was in a bad mood? :-)
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More Taboose Pass photos here:
Taboose Pass photo album
