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 had just fallen down a twenty foot snowy slope. Right after the fall I was still grasping my left hand, a little panicked that it might be broken but still hobbling slowly and carefully up hill. I don’t think I have ever hated switch backs like I did in that moment. Which …
I had been training to hike Mt Whitney for months. Mainly I was just distance running with some longer hikes thrown in. I felt like I was in okay condition to hike the twenty two miles of Mt Whitney, but I definitely could have trained harder if I had more time. For weeks every one told …