Mt. Whitney

GringoDiablo · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Mohave Valley

I've been grinning at Whitney's peak since a teen. The mother of her flock. It's time to climb the old girl, anybody got some tales? I would like to tag the peak some time next year. I'm hoping to get my crew up there, anybody game?

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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Checkout my report from last year:
http://www.arizonahikers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4956&highlight=whitney

As well as my day hike trip on it, 2 years before that one.
http://www.arizonahikers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1936&highlight=whitney

I'll be doing it again in about month as part of the High Sierra Trail. Absolutely LOVE that area, hope to make a trip there every year. Winter in the Canyon, Summer in the mountains.

LongStoryShort · Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Doha, Qatar

Unless you're doing the mountaineer's route, it's a piece of cake, easy walk all the way up.
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azbackpackr · Posted: 7/12/2007, 5:34 pm Post subject:

Piece of cake. We backpacked quite a ways last summer--about 4 days, then approached from the backside trail. Left the overnight packs at the saddle junction of trails, then to the peak. The hard part was hiking down the front side in a lot of snow, after having picked up the big packs again. Post holed it a few times, not fun with a big pack on. That was in early July. Someone from our group climbed it again a couple weeks later and the snow was pretty much all gone.

I live at 7,000 feet all the time and hike to 10,000 all the time, so altitude was not an issue. Some of the flatlanders felt kind of funny after we were on the summit for a couple hours, said they wanted to go down. Do a lot of peak bagging ahead of time for your training.

Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

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GringoDiablo · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Mohave Valley

Thanks for the info. I have considered the altitude change, I am a guilty flatlander dweller, Colorado River rat. I dangle my toes in the river every morning. It would probably be a good idea to hang a couple of days at a higher altitude before the accent, but this weekend I'll be in the zion Narrows with my crew playing in the Virgin Wink

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