Whoa. Utter madness...
Total thread bump, but I followed a rabbit trail from where Steve C plugged this TR from the Huell Howser Video and I recognized the cloud over Mt. Russell in the photos from Whitney summit (and then the date from Steve's smugmug).
I happened to be on the Mountain that day on my first ever Whitney bid.
My dad and I started from the Portal @ Midnight, he made the summit just after sunrise, I'd end up turning around below Keeler Needle due to hallucinations.
Also I notice Calicokat summitted 9/30/10 a few hours before my pops. I'd meet him on the JMT that following summer.
Small world. That's the power of the WHA...
