Climbing Mt. Whitney - Mountaineers Route - Apr 2015
Mt. Whitney Mountaineers
Route - April
3-4,
2015.
19
Miles Round Trip; 8,
000 Ft
Elev Gain; 19,094 Cal
Burned.
Nature Church Official Outing -
Group of 6
Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous US at 14,
505 feet. The trailhead is at approx 8,380 feet, for a net elevation gain of 6,125 ft.
The mountaineers route is normally 12 miles round trip, but on the first day we accidentally went
3.5 miles in the wrong direction, gaining 1,890 ft from where we should have turned off at the mountaineers route, all the way up to
Mirror lake, at which
point we realized we were in the wrong canyon. This made for an exhausting first day. Because of the mistake, we also ran out of daylight and camped further down on the mountain at lower Boy
Scout Lake. The second day we started at 5 am, reached t
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