The Whitneyish numbers are why we used it as an opening hike. Whitney was usually our second hike before we moved on to bigger and slightly dumber things. We would finish up in late Sept with a hike that was 48 hours long. The shortest one of those was Whitney from Kings Canyon Roads End.
Then there was Whitney from Roads End via Colby when I carried two cans of cake frosting for food.
We did Whitney from Mineral King once.
And our last hike together was a 72 mile loop of Kings Canyon that went horribly bad.
Now I hike with my son and don't feel he is ready for 20+ straight hours. Maybe next year................DUG
