A ranger told me that they were going to start issuing hang tags for packs again. They weren't doing this is June.
I had a hang tag for my 6/9-11 trip. In my case, I was coming up from the west side, so mine was blue. I noticed others had manilla tags, so I figured that was the color code for the MMTW trail. Did you spend the night or day hike? I wonder what manilla indicated.
BTW, after reading the various interpretations of the WAG bag statutory effect, I asked the permitting ranger about the zone. I already knew this, but for some reason hadn't really processed it, but WAG bags are only required (per FS 'opinion' - may not really be legally valid) within the Whitney zone.
Guess what's not inside the zone? Yeah, not only Guitar/JMT, but the JMT/MMTW trail after the junction:
