Great weather for a 9/14/2017 day hike to Trail Camp. Encountered 5-6 JMT groups on the finish hike to the Portal. No doubt very disappointed about the kitchen closure. All were pretty much hammered by the weather conditions over the past few days and happy to see the sunny day finish. One bivouacked on the summit and considered hiking out at 1am during a hard cold blow: common sense prevailed.
Heard a few accounts of someone staggering around Outpost Camp with AMS or worse: looking for the summit trail, wondering if this was Trailside Meadow, ascending out of Outpost and then descending. It's amazing how a group will let that happen. Another account from at least 4 groups that saw a father and fatigued son at Lone Pine Lk junction, Outpost Camp and Trail Camp. A few suggested that they should consider descending. I never caught up with them to see for myself. Hope they made it down okay.
Lots of mosquitoes in the sunny afternoon below the Lone Pine Lake trail junction and the deer migration to lower elevation may be starting.
