John, I pored through Steve Hall's description. I wouldn't go that way, unless you have serious issues with something like the Ebersbacher Ledges on the MR, or the Half Dome cables. My friend Don who went with me on that hike has never hiked Whitney, and doesn't do anything technical, and the ONLY place he had an issue was descending that spot with the three pictures.

All the twists and turns, along with the extra descending onHall's "zero-exposure route", and trying to walk the route in this picture....(his pics 29 & 31)

...leaves me thinking "that's not for me". In my mind, that is more difficult than walking the ledges we used.

Looking more, I found some good pics of the route in this thread:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?17,72545,72558#msg-72558

And more discussion of the many other routes here:
Easiest route to the Diving Board: http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?17,72681,72681#msg-72681
Those guys are Yosemite veterans, and if they write that the climbers route is the fastest, I'd say that is your route, especially if you want to descend quickly.

When I took that hike, all I knew was what I read in the WPSMB post by Kashcraft. When we got to the granite rise after crossing Steve Hall's "Low Point", we wandered around, finding cairns ALL OVER the place! While we were wandering around, a group of climbers came through who obviously knew where they were going. We finally decided to follow them, and that was critical to our success.