John Muir Trail HD (video) by Pete Bell

High Sierra HD – Backpacking the John Muir Trail from Pete Bell on Vimeo.

Here’s an awesome intro to a documentary Pete Bell is making of hiking the John Muir Trail. The scenery is beautiful and the story is pretty good.

This is a 6 minute piece I produced from an end to end hike of the JMT in the Summer of ’08.
It features 5 high school students from Chapel Hill, NC and their experience along the trail. We took 16 days at about 15 miles of hiking per day to hike all 220 miles from Yosemite Valley south to Mt. Whitney. We had one resupply at Vermilion Resort where the group cleaned out the small store there trying to stock up with 9 days of food.

I’d sit and watch this for an hour on TV. Let me know when it’s out, Pete.