I am planning to go back in there and get this peak in the winter, when the snow is more consolidated. At first, I was instigating 7 days for the trip, telling Hamik we need this amount of time (3 days in, 1 day for peak, 3 days out), but he had to be back Tuesday night which restricted our agenda to 5 days.
It was still an awesome, valuable, rare experience to be out there at this time of the year fresh from a major MAJOR storm.
There are a multitude of route options, you can take a safe bet and stick to trails, but prolong the approach quite a bit. There are a multitude of passes you can utilize-one north and south of lippincott is a possibility. I would like to do Black Kaweah in the winter from the East...............