So awesome! I'd really like to do that hike. How long did you take to pack back out? What was the process like to get the permit?
Thanks. We broke the hike down to smaller goals so we could get acclimated to the elevation changes.
Our schedule was like this.
Thursday - meet at Whitney Portal Station and camp there.- 8000ft
Friday- hike to outpost camp. 3.5 miles - 10,000 ft
Saturday- hike to Trail Camp- 3.5 miles- 12,000 ft
Sunday- hike to Summit- 3.5 miles-14,487 ft, then hike back to trail camp and pack up camp, and then head all the way back down to The portal station.
About 15 miles on Sunday.
Charlie twisted his ankle so we had to go slow. We got off the trail at 10:00pm.
Too tired to drive home Charlie, Art, and I checked into the local motel and slept it off.
We went home the next morning.
To get the permit I set my alarm for Feb 1st and put in my application for an overnight permit.
You can have a group of up to 15 people go.
It was around March that I checked my profile and saw that my dates were approved for Memorial Weekend.
I had to confirm the dates right before the trip and had to pay $15 per each person in my group.
You pick up the permit at the visitors center off Hwy 395 in Lone Pine.
Some people make a day trip out of it and go all the way up and back. You can just drop in at the visitors station and pick up a day pass.
