Mount Whitney Climber's Log : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost

Mount Whitney Climber's Log

yadahzoemtn - May 31, 2011 9:51 pm Date Climbed: May 28, 2011

Solo and Snow

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.

bdivall - May 22, 2011 8:32 pm Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2010

Mount Whitney

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

jpsmyth - May 12, 2011 11:17 am

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.

TheNobleSunfish - May 3, 2011 2:38 am Date Climbed: Feb 13, 2011

Mountaineer's Route

3-day trip with the CAC. My 5th time on top (2x summer trail, 1x spring trail/snow, 2x winter MR)

ElGreco - Apr 26, 2011 8:39 pm 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.

badmajick - Apr 21, 2011 12:24 pm Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2011

MR route

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.

Niels79 - Apr 16, 2011 10:11 pm Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2010

Main trail

Left the portal around 2 AM and reached the summit 11 AM. Was back at the portal 5 PM

ctc136 - Apr 1, 2011 9:35 pm Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2010

Killer Day Hike

Great hike. Started out at 3:30 AM for this beast!

chrisbrown - Feb 22, 2011 10:46 pm Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010

altitude

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!!

brizza - Feb 18, 2011 7:40 pm Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2005

From the PCT

Team Certain Death baby!

platypii - Feb 14, 2011 3:38 am Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2009

Whitney Traverse

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!

GigaMike - Feb 3, 2011 11:12 pm Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2010

#30 & #100

Hiked up the main trail with Richard Piotrowski. This was Richard's 100th and my 30th.

CastillejaMiniata - Feb 3, 2011 9:29 pm Date Climbed: Oct 7, 2008

From behind.

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.

triyoda - Feb 1, 2011 10:56 pm Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2010

Mountaineer

Kind of a slog. The last 400 feet was quite steep for Class 3. Nobody on the summit but me. Quite a view.

PlanIt - Jan 28, 2011 12:38 pm Date Climbed: Oct 31, 2007

Worthy alpine

East Face, East Buttress, Moutaineers route are perfect and classic. Would repeat Whitney any time. Winter ascent?

s_kavert - Jan 18, 2011 6:44 pm Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2010

MMWT

Great hike in great weather. Camped at Consultation Lake to avoid the crowds. Nice to be able to make the top after snow turned us around at Trail Camp last year.