I am so relieved that I had to share with you guys.
After god-knows-how-many "no, it is still fully booked" responses from John and Cindy at the Permit office, just 10 minutes ago 4 cancellations came through and I hastily picked up 2! Yeah! This DOES mean I have one extra. I will check with my buddies here and see if anyone is coming. If not, I will release it tomorrow morning to the general pool.

Thanks to Steve for keeping me optimistic!

Mt. Whitney, here I come...cell phone or not...Yooohoo
T2n