Bob,

I'm guessing it's probably a matter of semantics. Perhaps when the ranger said that the overnight permit could only be issued for a particular trail, he meant what you said about it referring only to the TH entry point. However, I probably assumed that he meant not only the TH entry point, but the entire trail as well. I don't recall my conversation with him clearly enough to remember whether this distinction was ever discussed (I'm not sure it was). He just said that I could get an overnight permit either for one trail or the other. I probably drew my own more-restrictive conclusion as what he meant by that, which it seems was incorrect. Thanks for the clarification.

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)