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 The John Muir Trail is a 211 mile trail that goes from Yosemite National Park to Sequoia National Park through some of the most pristine and rugged mountain terrain in the lower 48.  To anyone that loves the outdoors it’s a paradise.

However, being on the trail can be anything but paradise with the wrong foods or not enough of it.   New customer Tim Cahalan discovered PROBAR along the trail and underestimated how much he’d come to love it.

Here is his story along with some great pictures from his hike.

Well, my story of finding the PROBAR may or may not be unique.  A friend and I hiked the John Muir Trail last month, and I obviously spent a great deal of time chosing the food that I would take with me as well our resupply bucket mailed to the Muir Trail Ranch.  I purchased all kinds of bars, including misc Power Bars, Snickers Marathon, and Cliff. Notice no PROBAR.

After 7 days of hiking, we hit MTR for our resupply. It was late in the season, and we had free run on the dozen or so buckets of food and personal items that had been left from previous hikers.  

Bucket #10 appeared to be the energy bar bucket, and it had every type of bar imaginable, including homemade.  Well, there were a dozen or so PROBARs, which I have to admit I have never heard of before, so for some variety from what I brough with me I grabbed a few.

Not even caring about looking at the label, I ate the first one hiking out from MTR (apple something), and it was wonderful.  I took a good look at the label, saw it was 400 caleries (more than any of my other bars)and actualy healthy, and figured out quickly that I chose very unwise in my energy bar choice for trip  Hindsight told me that I should have turned around and grabbed half dozen more.

Came back, found you web site, and will now take PROBARs with me in all my adventures, as well as my normal Saturday morning mtn bike rides on the trails on Austin.

Tim and his friend on the John Muir Trail

Gotta protect your food -  Tim Cahalan with the bear canisters

Forester Pass, elevation 13.200′ - Sequoia National Park

Fine dining on the John Muir Trail - may I take your order please?

Each customer whose “Your PROBAR Story”is published here on the blog will receive a Seventh Heaven Pack which is one PROBAR of each of the original flavors. We love to hear from our customers about their PROBAR story so if you’ve got one share it with us.