"From camp at Upper Boy Scout Lake. First day of three in N Fork Lone Pine Creek. A little snow on cl. 3 ledges up Pinnacle Pass. More class 3 on the W Arete / S Face. Descended sandy slopes to the NE." — klotito • Oct 8, 2021

"Paired with Wotan's Throne for the Nordic mythology theme. This was considerably harder than my research led me to believe. I suppose I'm still getting used to the larger scale of the Sierra peaks versus the LA area mountains. After a start later than I would like, I went straight up from Mirror Lake. After the initial annoying skirt around the lake itself, it's a lot of steep slog interspersed by a couple sections with bit of rock. The "crux" is the final crest just below the summit. I went up to a notch where I felt there there must have been a couple class 4 moves which had me gripped not about up but on the thought of down climbing them, and rightly so. Otherwise the climbing was admittedly fun, but it's one of those where you can easily veer into class 5 or cliff out on the return. Finally you need to get over to the North side where it's more obvious and easy to the summit and register. I get the impression that the other side from the North Fork trail is more straightforward so I'd like to try that at some point." — JustinB • Aug 20, 2018

"First trip into the High Sierra this year. Wonderful views and a beautiful hike. So much better than the Whitney Main trail. The views from the summit are well worth obtaining, Whitney looks so dominating." — Irrationalist • May 2, 2015

"Try to take the SE couloir but chose the wrong one and wound up getting trapped by a chokestone. Was able to climb around a rib to get one couloir over which brought me to the plateau. I don't think there is a finer view of Mt. Whitney from any summit!" — Christopher • Nov 17, 2013