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4419m/14494ft Mount Whitney 22/23 June 2005

Mount Whitney and surrounding peaks from the Lone Pine visitor center	Mount Whitney from the portal road	Looking north up the Owens Valley from the Whitney portal road	The Whitney portal road
Thor Peak and Mount Whitney from the portal road	Start of the main Mount Whitney trail	Thor Peak from the trail	Lizard on the trail
Trail crossing North Fork Lone Pine Creek	Climbing towards Lone Pine Lake	Crossing Lone Pine Creek at 10,000ft	The start of the Whitney zone above Lone Pine Lake
Looking down to Lone Pine Lake and east across the Owens Valley to the Inyo Mountains	Bighorn Sheep Park and Outpost Camp	Snow-covered trail to Trail Camp above Mirror Lake at 11,000ft	Trail Camp at 12,000ft
The route to Trail Crest	Solar latrine at Trail Camp	Whitney Needles at sunrise	Snow surface on the trail at sunrise
The route to Trail Crest at sunrise	Ice on the switchbacks	Cable section of the switchbacks	Pinnacle Ridge from the snow chute
Wotans Throne and Trail Camp from the snow chute	Highest point; approx. 13,000ft on the snow chute	Looking up the snow chute towards Trail Crest	Marmot at Trail Camp
Mount Whitney and the Needles from Trail Camp	Descent from Trail Camp	Frozen Consultation Lake	Above Whitney Portal
Lone Pine: Dow Villa Hotel where I stayed; and the Mount Whitney Restaurant where I had a Buffalo Whitney Burger