From the sounds of things, there was a lot of spring snow this year. I’m starting in Yosemite in early July, will I need crampons? Will hiking shoes and stubborn determination be enough?
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Crampons? - John Muir Trail
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Probly not, Yo is just not that high in the sky, ain’t no tricky passes, but might be some tricky creek x-ings. However, Wind rivers might be more trickaceous but by early July, I didn’t even need my Austria-Alpin midi crampons in glacier park in 2004 cuz it had all done melted out (or the ice axe i unfortunately carried).
gingerbreadman