Lone Pine Lake is ruggedly beautiful. We started the hike at two p.m. In the heat of the day and as you sludge along uphill the trail is all in the sun. This was going to be a brutal practice for tomorrow’s ascent of Mt Whitney. Luckily I had come prepared with some …
I obviously had to decide to conquer Mt Whitney for the second time when I was in the worst shape I have been in, well, in at least three years. Seriously it was an effort to run two miles this morning, my calves and ankles were aching a mile up the huge steep trail …