My buddies bailed on me this year also, and I ended up doing all my Whitney drainage dayhikes (as well as two new (to me) non-Whitney trails) alone, although I always ran into someone along the way -- some trails more so than others.

You'll be fine.

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)