Bee wrote:
> except the one who was ranting about how stupid of me to want to overnight on the Whitney summit

True story. I was there. crazy Sort of like the grocery store clerk saying, "Whoa! That's a lot of ____" (I'll bet store clerks are ordered NOT to comment on the stuff people buy.)

Just so "Bobness" doesn't get too confused, Akichow is talking about the only permits required for hiking out on one particular trail. (I don't think there is another like it in the entire country.) It's the Trail Crest Exit permit, required of anyone starting an overnight trip on another Inyo National Forest trailhead, and then exiting via the Main Mt Whitney Trail.