Tollermom, so great to hit the trail as you, Gina and Dan passed by. You were impressively exuberant.
Here's your great picture at Trail Crest.
Several comments:
Glad you finally got your text to post. Good trick finding the HTML setting. It was some curly apostrophes ( ’) and long-dashes (–) causing the problem. Notepad/Courier doesn't flag the curly apostrophe.
You apparently missed my tirades about not treating water, (and I won't expound here), but here's a link to the latest:
Main Mount Whitney Trail, 7/8/14 solo day hike. Not filtering saves time and energy.
You are pretty well acclimated based on living at 4500' and working at 6300'. You got a taste of the lack of appetite, though. That's how it hits me, too. Juicy fruit is always great when you can't eat anything else!
When I descended, I found what I think was the most probable spot J. Likely missed the trail. Just above Trailside Meadow, the trail makes a U-turn switchback. People going both up and down miss the turn (there was a small step up, and a really well beaten path), and continuing straight takes them out on the nose where I am pretty sure he fell. I'll post in the Likely thread about it one if these days. I built a wall of rocks at the spot, in hopes it would stop everyone from missing the turn.
