Originally Posted By: WanderingJim
I did that as a lark two years ago when I did my first summit of Whitney. Fortunately, didn't keep me from successfully summitting, but it was probably a bad choice.

But I was young and foolish back then. smile

Here's the right way: 7 years ago, now, Bob R organized an 80th anniversary of Norman Clyde's Highest-to-Lowest in a day. We camped on the summit, then hiked down and drove to Death Valley to watch the sunset from Badwater. Fun times!

      Links: Sunrise, Sunset -- 80 years after Norman Clyde

      Bob Rockwell's album: 2010-09-28 Whitney to Badwater