Fly into Sacramento Saturday, grab permits and bear cans, camp on Tioga Road, and shuttle a car to the exit trailhead that night. Sunday we drop 3,500 feet into Pate Valley. Then four nights and ≈eight climbing miles back up the canyon — waterfalls, swimming holes, zero day allowed — topping out at Glen Aulin Wednesday. Thursday we walk out to the shuttled car and straight to the AirBnB.
Sacramento in, up to the meadows, down into Pate Valley, then back up the canyon to Glen Aulin and out. Offline maps save themselves to your phone the first time you open this site, so this map, the route line, and your GPS dot all work in the canyon with zero signal. Nothing to download, nothing to set up.
Route line computed from OpenStreetMap trail data; elevations from Open-Meteo. Neither AllTrails nor onX offers a public API, so: the GPX button downloads our exact route to import into onX Backcountry, Gaia, Garmin, or CalTopo (onX: My Content > Import on their web map), and the other buttons open their trail pages.
Distances and elevation straight off the crew's planning sheet.
One night by the cars, three nights out.
Straight from the crew sheet. Pick your name (top bar) and your checkmarks follow you to any device — everyone can see who's actually packed. Nights at Glen Aulin have hit 7°F this week historically, so take the 30° bag seriously.
Decision from the planning call: we move as one group. What matters is redundancy — two water systems plus a pump, three stoves, everyone carrying offline GPS — and knowing where the shared gear is when the group briefly splits.
The plan as written on the crew sheet.
Add anything you pay for. Everything splits 9 ways automatically and the bottom shows exactly who pays whom. Shared live — everyone sees the same list. One exception: the minivan stays OUT of here. Marcos' company has it covered.
Build your trail menu from 1,600+ real dehydrated meals and trail foods (Mountain House, Peak Refuel, Backpacker's Pantry and friends — from the Hiker Food spreadsheet John shared). Target: 3,000–3,500 calories a day for the four trail days. Enough, but not too much — you carry every ounce.
Everybody's in.
Anyone can upload — every photo shows who shot it. During the trip the wall defaults to today, and the slideshow plays that day's photos. New photos show up for everyone within a minute.