Bob and Scott. Congrats. It was great fun meeting you both. We stayed at Outpost on Wednesday and headed up to Trail Camp on Thursday. Once at trail camp, we watched about 4 inches accumulate on our stuff fall in an hour. My tarp held up great in the snow. My sister's 3 season tent, not so much. It kept collapsing under the weight of the snow. Right about the time the lightning storm started, we headed down and were snowed on all the way past the portal. It's a bummer we didn't get to revist the peak, but we had a great time. The fall colors on the way up were extraordinary, and, of course, one of my favorite aspects of climbing is meeting people. I'm always amazed at how the jerks get weeded out at the lower elevations. All you are left with are good people who love the same things you do. Speaking of meeting people, we saw Rob from Crabtree and Laura from Tindall making their way down the main trail. They have closed up shop for the summer. (This was Rob's 20th summer.)
Another wonderful hike on Whitney.
Bob, what time did you summit and what time did you get back to the portal?
It looked like there was a lot of lightning up near trail camp as we were descending.
Brent N
