my only advice is to not get in the car and drive 5 hours after you wrap it up- that's when my soreness sets in. If I get one night's good sleep after 30-40 miles of hiking in a weekend, I'm ready to rock. And I'm fat and lazy.
I think you might be a bit early for snow free conditions - but given the heat and the lack of snow in the first place, you may still be able to make it up there successfully. I've seen quite a few trip reports in the mid-late June time frame in bigger snow years, and they spoke of fairly...
I figure cover your neck, fall, and crap yourself - those are the instructions I keep in my head. I'm fairly confident I can deliver on at least one of the three.
The real question is - what are you nervous about? Bears? Mountain lions? Other humans? IMO - Carrying a gun particularly while backpacking is likely to do you little good with most things you'd encounter EXCEPT for another human. Why? Because it's likely that any encounter with wildlife...
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