> but not so good on Mt. Whitney with 200+ people a day smearing it around, 17,000+ each season.
> Do that many fools actually go up the Main Trail every season?
Permit quotas: 100 day hikers, 60 overnighters, 25 Trail Crest exits. So the max number to enter is 185. But those overnighters are there at least two days, so boost the max to 245 person-days per day. Granted, they almost never are at capacity, so that 200 number is a good estimate.
