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| poorboy44 | Route Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: June 2001  | |
| Great route, many options all the way up. | |
| Posted Jul 23, 2004 2:24 pm | ||
| josephgdawson | Route Climbed: Via the Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 21, 2004 | |
| Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store. My main objective was Mt. Muir because I had already climbed Whitney via another route, but once Muir was in the bag I could not help myself from going on and tagging Whitney again, even though I did not want to. Love blowing past the tourists and asking the gasping porkers how they are doing. | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2004 9:06 pm | ||
| t511a | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: Summer 1996 | |
| I was eleven or something and this was my first real mountain. As I recall we had beautiful weather. Did it 1-day style and I was hooked. | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2004 8:14 pm | ||
| artg | Route Climbed: Mountaineers Route Date Climbed: April 30, 2004 | |
| Our climbing party of 3 spent the first night above Lower Boy Scout Lake; encountered a plethora of snow above 10,000 feet! Woke up early the next day carrying a light pack and made it to the summit by 1 PM. One member of our party aborted the climb at the top of the Mountaineers Couloir due to exhaustion and altitude sickness. The view from the summit was amazing! | |
| Posted Jul 15, 2004 3:22 am | ||
| happecamper | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: May 2001 | |
| 2 night trip, stayed at Outpost and Trail Camp. The snow on the Chute was soft going up, glissading was good coming back down. One person in our party got altitude sickness and had to turn around at Trail Crest. | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2004 2:40 pm | ||
| Dave Daly | Route Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: 3 July 2004 | |
| Simply another wonderful trip out in the hills with Deb! Although we had our share of altitude sickness, we managed to summit without any real problems. We did see some brief snow flurries on the last pitch though! Deb made the first pitch (5.8) look so elegant.....lots of fun hand jams. My hats off to her for cranking up a 5.9 vertical section on the far right side (yep, we were slightly off route) Nice leading, Babe! | |
| Posted Jul 12, 2004 3:34 pm | ||
| fugla | Route Climbed: John Muir Trail Date Climbed: July 10, 2004 | |
| Finishing a week on the JMT with camping on the summit. Beautiful weather, awesome sunset - and sunrise. | ||
| Posted Jul 12, 2004 3:20 pm | ||
| Scott Fulton | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: August 10, 1997 | |
| Yeah, I am signing this a bit late, oh well. It was a beautiful day, and I wish I had bagged Mt. Muir as well. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2004 4:39 pm | ||
| Swifty | Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: September 11, 2003 | |
| First time climbing on lead...on sighted it with massive amounts of beta from the following website message board: www.whitneyportalstore.com Von Dutch sponsored the climb | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2004 2:24 pm | ||
| Fred Bagni | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: October 2000 | |
| Cold and cloudy. Easy hike. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2004 1:10 pm | ||
| Fred Bagni | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: May 5, 2001 | |
| Lots of snow. A few challenging spots beyond Trail Crest; snow bridges with exposed drops. Fun. | |
| Posted Jul 11, 2004 1:08 pm | ||
| Fred Bagni | Route Climbed: Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: January 2002 | |
| Winter summit. Cold. Pain. Cold. Pain. FUN! | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2004 7:06 pm | ||
| sierradiscgolfer | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 1973 | |
| At fourteen years old this was one of my first peaks! | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2004 6:01 pm | ||
| brandon | Route Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: June 2004 | |
| 4 hours round trip from Iceberg Lake, a really fun day after freezing on Russell. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2004 6:52 pm | ||
| Deb | Route Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: 3 July 2004 | |
| My first 14'er! Dave and I took our time to Iceberg Lake for acclimatization on Friday; we enjoyed a beer and feeding the little birds. Saturday we spent a big part of the day climbing Whitney; the granite was beautiful, the weather was flakey, altitude affects were annoying, and we spent the night in the Smithsonian hut. The descent back to camp the next morning was interesting with a party on East Buttress causing ugly rockfall at least once on hour - all along our path! This was a major accomplishment for me considering my poor balance, crappy route finding skills and over-all wimp-ability to carry a heavy pack. Hugs and kisses to my doting partner! :) | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2004 11:42 am | ||
| RobertCharlesAltman | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: 6/29/04 | |
| Great hike! I loved this area. I left the Portal at 3:25AM, hike on up and arrived just fine. I ran down from Trail Camp and arrived back at 3:25PM. Exactly 12 hours to the minute round trip! Clear day, little wind. About 32 degrees whole way up. About 200 yards total of trail snow. Trail over snow easy to follow without crampons. Bring your camera! | |
| Posted Jul 1, 2004 2:28 pm | ||
| 395guy | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: Sunday, June 27, 2004 | |
| Great hike. Started at 4:45am. On top at 10:40am. Good weather (cloudless, temps in mid-50s, a nippy wind). Summitted with three friends: Aaron, Dan, and Jason. All of us had a great day. Read my trip report entitled, "Whitney Day Hike on June 27, 2004" and see my photo from Trail Crest. | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2004 12:08 pm | ||
| bennadler | Route Climbed: west slope Date Climbed: may 10 2002 | |
| over the west side (crabtree meadow) the late season ice made it easy to point uphill and avoid the switchbacks without impact. Super nice day. i have trail notes on this site http://www.pcthiker.com/pages/journals/2002/bennadler.shtml | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2004 12:59 am | ||
| Shaase | Route Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: Fall of 93 | |
| I couldn't stop drooling at the Fsh Hook Arete across the way.... | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2004 3:58 pm | ||
| charles97 | Route Climbed: Main Trail Date Climbed: June 19, 2004 | |
| Nice day hike on a clear summer day. Trail was mostly clear with a few patches of snow here and there. Started at 5:30, reached summit at 11:30. Took a detour and bagged Mt. Muir as well. 22 miles, 6,500 ft elevation gain, 2 fourteeners, not bad for a day's work. =^) | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2004 1:11 pm | ||
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