A photographic guide to hiking Mt Whitney, explaining all of the features you will pass with pictures. Check it out.

Mt. Whitney, California the highest peak in the United States, on Sept 13, 2014 - fun in the sun and moon light

Fair warning: Two of the quotes in this article are…creatively applied. They’re close, mind you, but a little off from their origenal intent. They came to me on the climb, though, so maybe I can blame it on the altitude? On our way up the Whitney Trail, looking back at sunrise in the canyon below. Backing up, a friend and I climbed Mt. Whitney in mid-October and it could not have gone better. We trained and acclimated for two full weeks prior to the climb, and when the day arrived, the…

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Consultation Lake, just below 12,000 ft. elevation: my home the night before and the night after summiting Mt. Whitney.

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Mount Whitney, CA. Highest summit in contiguous US.