I already learned some hard lessons following a "Lemming Trail" and got in deeper and deeper until I was almost in over my head.

Lesson learned is once you know you're off track, take your medicine and go back, secondly, I hike with a Garmin and use Gaia on my tel as a back up.

Two buddies and I are hiking the standard route from June 27-30.

We're packing crampons and ice axes.

This will be our first attempt at Whitney and I cannot thank all the contributors to this site enough for all the tips and trail reports.