Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Whitney Main Trail Conditions 2014 (Out-of-Date)

Been reading the forums a long time in preparation for my Mount Whitney Trip so thanks for all the info.

Reached the summit last Sunday, 9-14-2014. We started Thursday at Cottonwood Pass. Weather was perfect until Sunday. T-shirt in the day. Got a little cold at night but nothing froze.

Stopped for water at Chicken Spring Lake, Rock Creek, Guyot Pass, Crabtree Meadow and Guitar Lake. Guyot Creek was pretty small but still enough to get good water.

We left Guitar Lake at about 5am Sunday. We reached the summit at about noon. Got stuck on the summit in a random snow/hail storm that lasted at least an hour because we left while it was still hailing fairly hard. Very cold. Lots of people on the summit were not prepared and not expecting such bad weather conditions. Visibility was only about 100 yards so we did not get to see the views.

The spring on the 99 switch backs was still flowing. We hiked all the way to the portal which was too much down hill for one day. Over all it was amazing trip.