Relax, relax, it is after all the LA Times. My guess is they have cut back on the use of Google to fact check trivial things like the elevation of the California's highest peak.
One mo' thing on white out...as Rod said it can be a bit scary. The scary part is being disoriented. A couple of weeks ago on Ontario Ridge I knew exactly where I was, I just thought the right way to descend west rather than east. My friends and I stopped to discuss our direction of travel, everyone assured me we were going in the right direction. About a minute later, when the downward slope appeared to my left with a bunch of snow it I was sure we were going in the right direction...but not until then.
