I started my Mt Whitney Diary over on the WPS site. It can be found here:
Whitney Diary 2010

And as the song goes..."All my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standin' here outside the door and I'm leavin....."

Ok...not quite yet. I'm heading up to Horseshoe Meadow in the morning. I've called the Wilderness Permit center every day and haven't had any luck with cancellations. And I hate not having a backup plan. And I had to schedule a meeting on Thursday evening, so I won't be able to stick around to see if I can get a permit on the 8th.

Plan A - Get overnight permit for Whitney on Sept 7. Head to Consultation lake. Spend the night. Wake up and head for the summit. Back down Wednesday late afternoon.

Plan B - If I can't get an overnight permit for Sept 7, then plan is to camp at Meysan Lake on Sept 7th and then to summit Mt Irvine and Mt Mallory. Then I'll plan to do a day hike to Whitney in 3 or 4 weeks.

I'll probably log on tomorrow morning as well as Monday when I come down to Lone Pine.