It's hard for me to pick favorite places along the JMT. It might be easier to indicate the places I was not so keen of, Bear Ridge for example and some of the places where weekend- or dayhike trails touch the JMT.
I'd rather talk about moments then places. Moments like the happiness in my daughters face on top of Mount Whitney, the arrival on Glen Pass, the sunset at the camp site in the meadow after Donohue Pass, the first glimps over Virginia Lake, the moment we had dinner in Le Conte Canyon and were joined by a curious but unimpressed deer family grazing just a few yards from our tent, the meeting with hikers offering to help us out with Ibuprofen. The feeling we got on the passes looking north to the horizon knowing that's where we came from, looking south to the horizon knowning that's where we are headded to. So many times I felt that the world was made just for the two of us.
Apart from misplacing the camera at the end of the trip we made one mistake: Our schedule was too tight. We should have taken more time for the hike. This would have given us even more time to enjoy. After all, it was not "just a hike". It gave us far more then we've expected.
Let me add this: We are very touched by how everybody is trying to help us find pictures. It hurts to think that whoever is in posession of the camera now might not know how to contact the owner.
Anyway, thank you all for trying to help. Good to see how many good folks are still around!
