I looked up Mt. Young in my climbing log. I climbed Discovery Pinnacle, Mt. Hitchcock, Mt. Hale, and Mt. Young on 5-31-93. I probably camped at Trail Camp, but I didn’t record that. It’s about 8½ miles and 4,500’ of gain from Trail Crest to Mt. Young and back. It’s just a walkup from the south. I don’t see why you couldn’t climb both of your namesakes on the same trip.
BTW, I thought it would be cool to leave my business card in the register for my namesake, Mt. Pickering. In my hurry to get off the summit as a May snowstorm blew in, I left my wallet on the summit. I had to come back a week later to retrieve it. Pickering doesn’t get climbed very often, and the wallet was still there.
