Mt Whitney Zone Forums Trip Reports Overnite at the Notch

Spent Thursday night at portal went down to get a MR walk in permit at 8am at Inyo office they had 2 left..Nice day for a walk up the MR with a breeze off and on, got to the notch at 5pm dropped a few things off and went up the 400 took me 30min.to the top of notch starting on left side and hanging on right side rest of the way up.On summit at 6pm and 40deg very nice up there, came down far left side though the blocks then down the chute..

Had a nice dinner of chicken noodle soup and bread, and watched a beauty of a sunset.Then as the sun set the wind came up and blew all night shakeing my Uber Bivy for yea all night got maybe 3hrs sleep with 2 mild sleeping pills..Laying on my back my head would roll back and forth with the bivy so I would lay on my side and it helped..Got up at 10pm and 1:30am and the night sky full of stars it was awesome(better than Torrance) ..

In the early morning hrs I checked the temps of outside 26deg. inside my bivy 39deg. and inside my 32deg bag was 63deg.

When I left this morning(saturday)it was 24, met 2 climbers about to do the East Buttress and thay said it was 30 at iceberg lake..

Another fun filled couple days at whitney..

Doug Jr thanks for that always great BLT sandwich for lunch..

mark
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MR at the Notch


Camp






Sunset


Tea for One


Moon and Sunset

Good going, Baymark! Looks like a good bivvy spot. Your second picture of the approach to the MR is one of the best.

Mark,
great trip and bivy...

can you tell me the snow/ice conditions of the MR?

thanks,

Bill

Thanks Bill..more than 3/4 of the 400 snow and ice free, where there is just walk around..

mark

Mark,

how about up to the notch... snow or ice?

are you saying the entire MR can be done show free?

thanks,

bill

yep, no snow or ice, just dry rock..

check these out I didn't throw these up before..

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MR and Chute

Thanks Mark... nice pics...

hey, that last one, 054... is that a view of the 'traverse' route out of the notch?

if so, doesn't look good to traverse, eh?

thanks again,

Bill

Bill, is this the one you are referring to?

Yes... that's the pic I was refering to... is that a view of the traverse after the notch?

thanks,

bill

Yes, that path has been called the "easy walkoff", but it would only be easy if the snow offers good footing. I wouldn't touch it if there were any ice.

The base of the "Final 400" begins with a big step up from the little snow patch in the bottom left area of the picture.