Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Whitney 2007

LOL I deserve all the ribbing. It is funny now but back then it was..."Why did I carry all this crap?"
My poor buddy packed everything I told him to.He had never backpacked before and it had been 30 years since my last BP trip into the eastern Sierras.I read 2 books on climbing Whitney. I read wbtravis site daily. Found the WPS board and everything was about what could go wrong,what equipment was necessary in the event of a blizzard so I packed everything.I also thought that 53 pounds was not that bad. It was easy in my 20's. BIG MISTAKE!!! Fortunately we only carried it all to Outpost and set up base camp there.I wasted a lot of precious energy though because it took 5 hours to lug all that stuff just to Outpost. No wonder the next day I was struggling right out of the gate.I trained seriously hard for 3 years prior and was in the best cardio shape of my life.Good news is that I overcame my poor planning and summited anyways.