Mt. Whitney Win!

On Monday 4 Oct a group of my coworkers, friends of friends and I went for another attempt at summiting Mt. Whitney. Last year at this time we tried, but came up short due to trail conditions (http://fairfieldjohnsonfamily.blogspot.com/2009/10/pictures-from-my-mt-whitney-trip.html ). This year we had good weather for the most part. Daytime temps were in the high 30's to low 40's with wind. We stayed overnight at a place called Trail Camp before attempting the summit on Monday. After eating our delicious MRE's (meals ready to eat), courtesy of the US government, we spent most of the evening in our tents to get out of the wind and stay warm. When the morning came, we got up, ate some breakfast and then started hiking for the top. It took approximately 3 hours from where we camped to make the summit. The hike from the trailhead to the summit is about 11 miles. We hiked in 6 miles with heavy packs to our camp site on Sunday. Monday morning we hiked the rest of the way to the summit. After summiting we headed all the way back to the trailhead. We did a 1/4 of the trip distance on the first day and the remaining 3/4 the next day, including summiting. Photos are in reverse order. Enjoy.