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| Vitaliy M. | Winter success  Date Climbed: Mar 13, 2010 | |
| Mar 13 2010 Winter climb via MR. Our party was the only successful group that day. Need to come back for East Buttress/Face 09/29/2011 East Face car to car after a long ass drive from the bay area and maybe an hour of sleep at th TH...if weather was supposed to be better during the weekend we had a lot more planned...but this was fun in a way. MR had Water Ice all over..was fun to see that. | |
| Posted Jun 28, 2011 4:04 pm | ||
| mjp20k | Mountaineers Route Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2006 | |
| Perfect conditions up and down | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2011 9:16 pm | ||
| Joseph Bullough | Long Day Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2011 | |
| Our original plan was to climb the Mountaineers Route, but Lone Pine Creek was raging, so we backtracked and settled for the standard route. | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2011 1:16 pm | ||
| Trawinski | Summer Ascent Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2007 | |
| A perfect day and had the summit to ourselves for 15 whole minutes! | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2011 4:19 pm | ||
| yadahzoemtn | Solo and Snow Date Climbed: May 28, 2011 | |
| Started out at 3:30 a.m. Main Whitney Trailhead. GPS read 15.8 miles round trip gaining over 6100 vertical to the top. I was thankful for the mileage I could cut off with the snow level starting at 9500. Whitney is one of my favorites. The snow chute from 12,000 to 13,500 definately made it feel like mountaineering to me. Loved every minute of the 14.5 hours it took. Next time I hope to find partners that won't bail on me. | |
| Posted May 31, 2011 9:51 pm | ||
| bdivall | Mount Whitney Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2010 | |
| Started from Cottonwood Pass Trailhead on 7/1/10 at about 3:43PM. Arrived at camp at 40.81161N / 110.36903W at 7:34PM. Started for Mount Whitney on 7/3 at about 8:36AM. Summited Mount Whitney at 1:22PM. The entire day was clear & cool. Began descent from Mount Whitney at 2:00PM. Left camp on 7/5 at about 7AM. Arrived at Cottonwood Pass Trailhead at 11:07AM | ||
| Posted May 22, 2011 8:32 pm | ||
| jpsmyth | Multiple climbs | |
| First time was in grade school up the trail. Followed by an ill-fated attempt on east face. Last two attempts were successful via the Mountaineers Route. | |
| Posted May 12, 2011 11:17 am | ||
| TheNobleSunfish | Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: Feb 13, 2011 | |
| 3-day trip with the CAC. My 5th time on top (2x summer trail, 1x spring trail/snow, 2x winter MR) | |
| Posted May 3, 2011 2:38 am | ||
| ElGreco | MR Date Climbed: Apr 24, 2011 | |
| Via Mountaineer's Route. Clear conditions after a brief storm on Saturday, but very windy. The first pitch of the final 400ft is rock/mixed right now, while the rest is fairly deep snow under a crust. | |
| Posted Apr 26, 2011 8:39 pm | ||
| badmajick | MR route Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2011 | |
| Most Technical summit to date via Mountaineer's Route! Felt like summer in the afternoons and the dead of winter in the mornings. A 1 night trip, camping at the very frozen over Iceberg lake. | |
| Posted Apr 21, 2011 12:24 pm | ||
| Niels79 | Main trail Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2010 | |
| Left the portal around 2 AM and reached the summit 11 AM. Was back at the portal 5 PM | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2011 10:11 pm | ||
| ctc136 | Killer Day Hike Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2010 | |
| Great hike. Started out at 3:30 AM for this beast! | |
| Posted Apr 1, 2011 9:35 pm | ||
| chrisbrown | altitude Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010 | |
| After only 3 hrs sleep, I started my solo day hike at 8:30am (late) Had to turn back at trail crest due to incoming thunderstorms and also the altitude was getting to me. Plan on going back this summer. AWESOME TIME!! | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2011 10:46 pm | ||
| brizza | From the PCT Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2005 | |
| Team Certain Death baby! | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2011 7:40 pm | ||
| platypii | Whitney Traverse Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2009 | |
| Climbed from the backside (started from horseshoe meadows). Summited. Then descended the Mountaineer's Route, on snow all the way down to Iceberg Lake. Did not disappoint! | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2011 3:38 am | ||
| Clark_Griswold | Car to Car Date Climbed: Feb 6, 2011 | |
| Did a car to car via the MR. Felt pretty good about that until I met 2 guys doing a car to car using the East Buttress. Still, it was a good day. Calm clear summit day made for excellent long distance views. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2011 11:31 pm | ||
| GigaMike | #30 & #100 Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2010 | |
| Hiked up the main trail with Richard Piotrowski. This was Richard's 100th and my 30th. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2011 11:12 pm | ||
| CastillejaMiniata | From behind. Date Climbed: Oct 7, 2008 | |
| I did Whitney as an end to my traverse of the JMT in fall. I slogged through a blizzard up Forester Pass the previous day and it was pretty much all melted by the time I summitted Whitney the following evening. I slept in the hut atop, but before you call me stupid, there was zero lightning danger. I spent the whole next day walking down with my through-hiker's pack -ouch. | |
| Posted Feb 3, 2011 9:29 pm | ||
| triyoda | Mountaineer Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2010 | |
| Kind of a slog. The last 400 feet was quite steep for Class 3. Nobody on the summit but me. Quite a view. | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2011 10:56 pm | ||
| PlanIt | Worthy alpine Date Climbed: Oct 31, 2007 | |
| East Face, East Buttress, Moutaineers route are perfect and classic. Would repeat Whitney any time. Winter ascent? | |
| Posted Jan 28, 2011 12:38 pm | ||
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