"Started around 4am. Logged 22.3 miles and 6,706 ft elevation gain. Lots of neat wildlife, even on the switchbacks. Spent 2 hours at the summit. Got back to the Portal at 8pm. First 14er!" — jakobpfeiffer • Sep 12, 2024

"12 hours and 50 minutes after parking my car at Red Lake Trailhead, it was time to brave the road to Big Pine again. For once, this was a car-to-car 14er that left me enough time to get home to SoCal at a decent hour! This one is as others have described it: rough road to the trailhead, rough path to Red Lake, slippery class 2 to the saddle, very long final section to the summit. But WOW- the views are awesome. This really felt like a real adventure!" — danishclimber • Sep 8, 2024

"Started at 4:30ish AM. Logged 14.5 miles, 5500 elevation gain in 12 hours. Got lost a lot. Trail disappears and reappears elsewhere. Scree towards the summit. Lots of scrambling." — jakobpfeiffer • Aug 29, 2024

"17 hour car-to-car via West Face route. Weather was all over the place from blustery winds and driving ice pellets to beautiful sunshine. Started around 4am and back to car by 9pm, just in time to find a hotel room in Lone Pine. " — danishclimber • Aug 24, 2024

"Made it! a no-joke hiking effort. went up to Cottonwood Lakes the night before to acclimatize. Wednesday morning a 10 mile hike to the Cottonwood Lakes to help ward off altitude sickness. Then that afternoon over to the Whitney Portal for their famous bacon-cheese burger, and then began the 4 mile backpack hike up to Outpost Camp. Thursday morning up at 5:30am for the 6:00am trek (with just a slack-pack of food/water, etc.). Summited by 1:00pm, then all the way down n out, back to my car by 9:00pm. " — marc • Jul 31, 2024