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| Matt Worster | MR day trip  Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2005 | |
| MR up, summer trail down, 17 hour day, snow continuous from Lower Boy Scout Lake. Awesome day. | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2006 3:51 pm | ||
| Uncle Jams Army | Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: Apr 10, 2004 | |
| I climbed this route as part of a 5-day mountaineering course. We hiked up to UBL through the E-ledges on day one, and camped there for three days. On the fourth day, we summitted via the farthest left Chute above the notch, using ascenders to climb on ropes fixed by the guide service. Very nice summit day, as the weather was clear and perfect snow conditions. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2006 1:14 am | ||
| splattski | Whitney Trail in a day Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2003 | |
| Climbed with my wife on our anniversary, along with my Dad, 74. What a gorgeous climb. After listening to the wind shake the roof on our hotel room all night, it was calm at the portal. We had mostly clear skies with some wind up high. But not bad. With a 4am departure, made it back to the car at 5 minutes to headlamp o'clock. | |
| Posted Mar 25, 2006 2:22 am | ||
| ericd | Weekend Summit Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2005 | |
| Flew to Las Vegas, rented car, drove to trailhead, slept, climbed all day with a summit around 1pm. This has got to be one of the prettiest approaches, can see where Ansel Adams got all his photos from! Did the Pinnacle Peak (13,000')for extra-credit. 13hr climb with about 7000' elevation gain. | |
| Posted Mar 23, 2006 11:58 pm | ||
| MichaelJ | Route climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2005 | |
| Doing one of the technical routes up Whitney was one of my goals when I started climbing at the end of the previous season. Had to wait a long time for 120 to open to get here this year. Climbed with Damien. We originally started up the East Face but wound up traversing over to the East Buttress. From this point I stopped looking at the topo and just kept going up. Didn't need to place gear for about half the pitches. Fun climbing and the views just kept getting better. Warm and sunny on top. Long slog down a very snowy MR to get back to the tent at Iceberg Lake just before dark. | |
| Posted Mar 20, 2006 5:08 am | ||
| jakefrisbee | End of JMT Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2005 | |
| Went up July 4th weekend, 2005 then again at the end of July for the end of the John Muir Trail. We got pushed down to Trail Camp from Trail Crest because of thunderstorms, but we got a nap in and started for the summit at 7:30pm from Trail Camp. We were on the summit in time for a full moon rise and we were treated to a grand lightning show out across the Nevada desert. Absolutely no one else around up there at night! I was in the best hiking shape of my life. | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2006 8:47 pm | ||
| bajaandy | West side approach | |
| Started in Horseshoe Meadows, through New Army Pass and around to Crabtree Meadows and Guitar Lake. This was during a summer that there were big fires all over So. Cal, so views were minimal. Great trip none the less. | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2006 4:02 pm | ||
| tjbst47 | Mount Whitney Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2004 | |
| Hiked up on trail from the west. | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2006 8:59 pm | ||
| e-doc | Backpack with old friends Date Climbed: Sep 6, 1992 | |
| Great 4 day backpack with a successful summit. Hiked in at Cottonwood Lakes. We climbed over New Army Pass, went crosscountry and camped at Upper Soldier lake. Next day we hiked by Mt Guyot and camped at Guitar lake. Day #3 we met an episcopal priest from SF who knew the priest that married my wife and I. Small world! We summited, camped at Outpost camp, and hiked out on day #4 | |
| Posted Mar 5, 2006 10:35 pm | ||
| couimet | Whitney Main Trail Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2004 | |
| Lots of snow, but beautiful weather. Was my first and so far only 14er. Would like to do it again. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2006 11:04 pm | ||
| EManBevHills | Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: Oct 6, 1998 | |
| 45th B'Day ascent of 1st 14'er | |
| Posted Feb 25, 2006 5:57 pm | ||
| BCL | Main Trail Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2005 | |
| Night hike. Pretty cold on the summit at 5am. | |
| Posted Feb 23, 2006 5:05 pm | ||
| mthilgard13 | Winter 03 Climb Date Climbed: Feb 16, 2003 | |
| Made it to the top of the mountaineer's route chute (~14000 ft). Extremely windy, cold. Our leader got altitude sickness, so we unfortunetly turned around. Camped at Upper Boy Scout Lake. | |
| Posted Feb 22, 2006 10:19 pm | ||
| b_betts | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: Nov 2005 Date Climbed: Nov 27, 2005 | |
| Pretty cold and windy at the top, otherwise pretty straightforward. | |
| Posted Feb 16, 2006 9:29 pm | ||
| waltraud | Route Climbed: the standard walk-up; Date Climbed: July 1994 | |
| What an easy mountain. The scenery is fantastic, but the standard trail has no challenges what so ever. I was first to be on the summit that day, hiking up from Whitney portal. | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2006 8:53 pm | ||
| Mountain Impulse | Route Climbed: Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: August 31 2003 | |
| We packed in from the Portal and set up camp at Upper Boy Scout Lake the previous day (climbed Russell that day as well). The weather was good on the day of our summit. There were a few patches of snow to skirt in the gully. We reached the summit 3 hours and 10 minutes after leaving UBSL. We descended back to UBSL to break camp and then back to the Portal. | |
| Posted Feb 10, 2006 1:22 pm | ||
| Mountain Impulse | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: August 16, 2005 | |
| My son and I left the portal at around 4:30 am. Halfway to Lone Pine Lake, we caught two deer in our headlamps. They took their time moving away from us so we had a relatively long encounter with them. At sunrise, it was awesome to see our destination in the distance with the adjoining needle peaks in the dawn's early light. We hiked at a moderate pace and got to the summit before noon. While the day had been clear, the clouds rolled in on us when we summited and obscured about 270 degrees of vista. We had taken crampons and ice axes because it had snowed near the summit two days previously. However, the trail was clear all the way and so we just ended up hefting extra metal. Don't mind admitting I was feeling pretty fatigued on the way back down. When we got back to Lone Pine Lake, my brain went on autopilot knowing the end was only a couple of miles away. Brains on autopilot keep the legs and arms moving methodically until the destination is reached. | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2006 8:26 pm | ||
| Mountain Jim | Route Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: June 1989 Date Climbed: Jun 19, 1989 | |
| Round trip from Whitney Portal in a day. Great Route !!! | |
| Posted Feb 2, 2006 12:00 am | ||
| Traipser | Route Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 2003 | |
| A lovely stroll. | ||
| Posted Feb 1, 2006 4:49 am | ||
| mkeselak | Date Climbed: 3 Oct 2005 | |
| long, hard but very good | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2006 7:00 pm | ||
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