Muir Trail Ranch to Sapphire Lake
Mileage: 16.0 miles (25.7 km), total 130.2 miles (209.5 km)
Today was a big day as we had to get ourselves set up for Muir Pass the following morning. From here on in, the JMT enters real wilderness which is both remote and majestic. The scale of it really stands forefront in your mind as from here to Whitney is so grand and epic in its scale.
We started the day at Muir Trail Ranch and had breakfast as well as grabbing a packed lunch from the Ranch. We met some people over breakfast who were just starting a section hike up to Yosemite so I took plenty of time to talk about the section we had just walked through with them. Breakfast was fantastic with lots of eggs, pancakes, waffles, coffee etc, a thru-hikers dream.
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