With 4 months before my JMT hike, I knew that I needed an early season “shakeout” opportunity to get myself back into the backpacking mindset. My entire 2025 summer was spent traveling through Europe, basking in the luxuries of their hut-to-hut systems in places like Norway, Albania, Montenegro, and Northern Italy, and I was spoiled.
I now found myself in California for the winter, with a bunch of gear I hadn’t used in a very long time, …
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