Yosemite National Park has reopened to Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers with valid PCTA permits, more than a month after closing for all use.
https://thetrek.co/yosemite-reopens-for-pacific-crest-trail-thru-hikers/
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Not quite The Geezer, but getting there
How many PCT through-hikers enter Yosemite in a given day (assuming they spend at most one night in Yosemite) - 30? 50? I haven't looked at the quotas. But it's a small number of people, most of whom have already been on the trail for a while, and therefore are unlikely at that point in time to be infectious, even if they were previously infected, and they're spread apart. If any of them are carrying corona virus, then either they get COVID-19 while hiking and probably kick off, at which point they're no longer a danger to anyone else; or they're asymptomic but contagious, but that doesn't matter if they're not near anyone else. And they all have permits so it's possible to trace them if that becomes necessary, and presumably after Yosemite they continued on the PCT, so their wherabouts were generally known anyway. So I don't see a mess with opening things to PCT through-hikers.
Opening the valley and TM, on the other hand, could be a mess.