>"...If you go straight from the east coat to the John Muir you better bring an >oxygen tank with you, those 10-11,000 foot passes are deadly." I certainly had problems doing just a tiny piece of the John Muir. Do you suppose that if I had carried oxygen I wouldn't have had to walk 14 miles back to Tuolomne Meadows for breakfast, after a black bear ripped off all our food? Weary