Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Similar day hikes to Whitney?

BTW as an aside, I just went to Kings Canyon last Sunday to hike Granite Pass, but the bugs, heat and air quality were so bad that I bailed after a couple of miles. Since it was just a practice hike for Whitney and I was alone, I decided to just do the practice hike on my treadmill. Did four "sets" of 50 minutes with 10 minutes break between (to mimic my hiking to break ratio). Wore a loaded backpack at 18 pounds and set it at a 15 degree angle. Set the speed (between 2.4 and 2.8 mph) so that my heart rate and perceived effort was about the same as doing the actual hike (although obviously I would hike slower at altitude and over varying terrain, so that's why I used my HR to monitor intensity). The treadmill say I climbed over 6000 feet in those 4 hours so that's good enough for me. Hopefully I'll be ready this coming Monday for Whitney once again.