John Muir WildernessWhitney Trail Climber's Log
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| Trailboss88 | 1st CA 14er  Date Climbed: Nov 6, 2012 | |
| This hike made my 13th 14er but first in California. The weather was great, but the trail is long and tiring even in 2 days. Spent the night in the summit hut and got AMS. Definitely doing a technical route if I go back because the trail is boring. | |
| Posted Nov 8, 2012 1:04 pm | ||
| kteichert | HP #29 Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2012 | |
| What a great trail. A lot of hard work went into making that trail doable for everyone. Well deserved credit goes to the workers. Amazing. | |
| Posted Oct 12, 2012 3:13 pm | ||
| davidpickavance | Long but satisfying Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2002 | |
| Took us about 16 hours and I got a headache at the top but it was fun | ||
| Posted Mar 9, 2012 5:25 pm | ||
| hightinerary | XIII Date Climbed: Jun 19, 1999 | |
| I have done this route 13 times. | |
| Posted Dec 22, 2011 3:16 pm | ||
| jonathanluk | Awesome Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2010 | |
| Summited with my 65-year old dad and 6 other friends, well planned 3 day trip, Whitney Trail, perfect weather. Want to do the day trip, as well as down the road with my kids. | |
| Posted Oct 29, 2011 3:54 am | ||
| MtnDoser | Mission Accomplished! Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2011 | |
| Great dayhike! I would like to camp out there some day and take another route. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2011 8:28 pm | ||
| klimbien | Success Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010 | |
| Loved it - would like to summit again via another route. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2011 2:28 pm | ||
| Wild | Amazing day hike Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2010 | |
| My first climb in the Sierras. Nothing short of epic. | |
| Posted Oct 28, 2010 12:20 am | ||
| QuikR | Whitney by August full moon light Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2010 | |
| While resting back at the family campground 13 hours after my first ever ascent and summit of Whitney earlier that windy morning, I got the idea to give it a 2nd go, solo at night. At 10:27 pm I started back up the trailhead from the portal hiking mostly by moonlight. Coming up the lower switches, I started looking left and exploiting the smooth and steep granite slabs that ran parallel to the creek. At the lower meadow, I went hikers left past the waterfall and staight up through a rapidly inclining granite boulder field, gaining the elevation up to the main trail camp. These granite boulders were magnificent large shiny quartz filled obstacles that required faithful dynamic moves to stay on time and keep moving over some distance. The quartz chips within this granite emited an incredible refelctive glow under moonlight. This field eventually threads into the glacial morains carved through bedrock that leads back right and up into the main trail camp. Above the switchbacks, there was virtually no wind unlike earlier that day when it was 60+ consistent. I reached the summit a few minutes before 3:00 am, bagged the first summit entry of the day and wrote a few notes as I took in the moonlight silhouettes of the surrounding view. After about :10 mins, I was booking hastily back down towards the trail crest. In good time, I was looking back down onto the first riser's coming up from camp. The pain of muscle fatigue from the earlier climb had been replaced with an aching in my feet as I duplicated the day's earlier 6,000 ft descent down the rocky trial. There with my summit log I snatched as a souvenier, I arrived back at camp. I dove back into my tent for an hour of sleep before my party woke to pack and leave, and I would tell them about the night's adventure. | ||
| Posted Aug 24, 2010 10:56 pm | ||
| therockimage | One day trip Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2010 | |
| Perfect conditions! The switchbacks were snowed over so we went up the chute to trail crest. Awesome views! | |
| Posted Jun 10, 2010 4:57 pm | ||
| JEFFS | Overnighter Date Climbed: May 17, 2008 | |
| We went up main trail and avoided the switchbacks by going up the chute straight up to trail crest. Fun on the way down was able to glissade the chute... | ||
| Posted Apr 7, 2010 7:28 pm | ||
| NavySeabee | Inspiring! Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2007 | |
| First 14er ascended. Finished out my 13 hour day with Keeler and Muir. Definitely worth a return trip! | |
| Posted Dec 7, 2009 12:31 pm | ||
| A-Lex | Up the Trail | |
| Holy cow! I thought this was gonna be like a day at Disneyland, but I had so much fun! If you wanna have a party AND be in the mountains, do this trail! Everyone is so stoked to be out there and the vibe is awesome! | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2009 1:09 pm | ||
| hol571 | Great Trip Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2009 | |
| knees hated the decent from trail camp to outpost, too many big step downs w/ a heavy pack | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2009 2:09 pm | ||
| WML | Winter fun Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2009 | |
| Good times! Plenty of snow | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2009 2:01 am | ||
| Hotoven | Long day hike Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2008 | |
| This trail was very nice, and had a million switchbacks right before you got to the John Muir Tail Junction. It took us 13 hours to hike it. and We saw a young black bear at the start of our hike around 3 A.m. | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2009 1:35 pm | ||
| Cascade Scrambler | Good times Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2008 | |
| We met some of the coolest people we've ever met while on this hike. It was long, and some of the route had fresh snow on it, but we were successful! Nice trail, beautiful scenery. Climbing over Trail Crest and catching our first view of Sequoia was breathtaking. | |
| Posted Oct 5, 2008 1:47 am | ||
| SpankyBob | First 14er Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2003 | |
| One day trip. Fifteen hours, liesurely pace. | |
| Posted Sep 9, 2008 2:01 pm | ||
| Sienna | Fun time to go Date Climbed: Oct 26, 2006 | |
| This was a fun trip, but I almost slid off the trail just beyond the trail crest. I punched my foot through snow into nothing. Ha-ha, at least I had my ice ax. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2008 4:12 pm | ||
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