... Steve- in 2014 I posted some maps about this but I cannot find it on SEARCH. If you can find it , that would be great. There might be one error on it. I may have drawn the route on the lake above Sky Blue as one direction, whereas either direction will work.
Here you go:
Miter Basin to Whitney and northMy search method:
keywords: +major +general
"in body"
name: Harvey Lankford
Newer than 4 years
Older than 1 year
By the way, that red line in Harvey's picture above starting up to Discovery Pinnacle is really not a bad way to go. I climbed toward that from the west (middle Crabtree Lk), and got way too high too soon, and completely missed where the upper end of the red line cuts back to the northeast. But I would not hesitate to go that way. Yes, it is a bit of a sandy slog, but it isn't bad as it might seem, where people say "two steps up, slide back one". Granted the decomposed granite is soft, but when you actually climb that stuff and pay attention, you don't slide back much at all. I think it is only marginally worse than climbing the 99 switchbacks.
