The stock trail joins the JMT at the bridge below Vernal Falls. It returns to Happy Isles -- just on the other side of the river. I take it often -- quiet, and very few people.
Hey, Steve, isn't that stock trail the original JMT start? And isn't it stock ONLY?
Can you enter it at the Happy Isles end, if, say you were a JMT purist of some kind (and also were taking the Shepherd Pass variation, of course) and wanted to tqke the original route?
