Hello. I’ve been trying and failing to get a JMT permit out of Happy Isles for two weeks and am feeling a bit desperate. But I got to thinking that, with the drought conditions this year, May might be a reasonable time to start my hike. Did anyone hike all or part of the trail last May (or some other time early in the season)? I called the ranger office in Yosemite and they couldn’t really say how inadvisable it’d be to hike then, but suggested I try to find folks who did it last year.
Thanks!
Erin