Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion First Light on Mt Whitney: Photograph from 16,000'

This picture was taken October 12, 2015 at 6:07 am, from an airplane at 16,000 feet altitude.

Here is the web site: Photographing Mt Whitney From the Air

Click here for the full screen image.   If you know where to look, you can see the last switchback before Trail Crest, and another piece of the trail half way between Trail Camp and the top switchback.



From the website:


This would make a great poster!

Steve,
That picture was taken years ago. They probably just posted it up on the website a few days ago. I know because I bought that poster from the Portal Store for my parents several years ago and it's still hanging in their living room. :-)

Thanks, 2600. Man do I feel like a sucker. I thought the snow coverage looked a little heavy.

Doing some searches:

On Panoramio
"6:00 am May 1st, 2008 from 16,000 feet looking west."