Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Onion Valley to Whitney Portal via JMT

The reason why I am bringing the crampons up to OV is not so much for Whitney, but the JMT. My trek colleague called the Inyo center today and they were recommending crampons, and NOT micro spikes, for the south side of Forester, and the route up from Guitar Lake to the Muir Junction.

We'll check again when we're up there... worst comes to worse, we just leave the gear in the car.

Yeah, we have two permits for the trip... from what I recall the Whitney entry permit was a "Kearsarge Pass JM31 overnight", and the exit was "Whitney Trail JM35".