1. Hiking up from Whitney Portal |
2. North Fork, Lone Pine Creek |
3. View of Whitney and the Needles |
4. On the snow |
5. Base camp at Upper Boy Scout Lake |
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6. The way up... |
7. Hanging food away from marmots. |
8. Posing in front of tomorrow's route |
9. The climb starts - 9am, May 12. |
10. Upper Boy Scout Lake still frozen |
11. The Needles |
12. Mount Whitney and the Needles |
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13. Mount Whitney and the Needles |
14. The target |
15. Getting to the base of the climb |
16. Iceberg Lake below |
17. Climbing the East Buttress... |
18. ...it is cold and late. |
19. Too late to climb - we bail out... |
20. ...rappelling down |
21. Iceberg Lake and Mount Carillon |
22. Good granite. |
23. View from the East Buttress |
24. Iceberg Lake and Mount Carillon |
25. Climbing down on the steep snow |
26. Back to camp. |
27. The camp at Clyde Meadows and Lone Pine below |
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28. Lunch |
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30. Upper Boy Scout Lake from Mount Carillon (the following day) |
31. Can you spot Lanier ? |
32. Whitney from Mount Carillon |
33. Climbing a shoulder of Mount Carillon |
34. The shoulder |
35. Where we came from |
36. Whitney from a shoulder of Carillon |
37. Standing on the shoulder |
38. A shoulder below the Russel-Carillon saddle |
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39. Back to Whitney Portal - on the Ebersbacher Ledges |
40. Mount Whitney from Whitney Portal |
41. Driving Home |
42. A last glimpse |
43. We shall be back... |
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