Day 57, Sunrise on top of Whitney

June 16
Top Mt.Whitney to Crabtree meadows mile 766 To Tyndall creek campsite mile 775.

Hiked 9 + 8 (Whitney trail)

Good morning Whitney. About an hour before sunrise people stated showing up. A few day hikers and a few pct hikers.

We sat around and I ate my oatmeal and waited for the sunrise.

Sunrise





Got to have a picture with my chair.


















Moonshine lol





It was great. I love every minute of being up here. After sunrise we waited for it to get a little warmer. A couple day hikers walked into the shelter around 6:30am and they had be hiking since 5pm the previous day straight through the night! That's crazy really cold and miserable. They had heavy packs to. I don't know why they made this hike so difficult for themselves. They came up the Whitney portal side (east) it's like 22 mile round trip. From the PCT we come up the Westside. 16 mile round trip.

It's time to head back down.





Snow!





Guitar lake from Whitney





Guitar lake from the bottom.





Selfie.




Just chillin on a rock



Had to take another photo for Jordan. Haha

Views of clouds and mountains. I can't believe I get to see this all day every day.






I'm hiking so I can get close to forester pass which is the highest point on the PCT. The plane is to go over the pass early morning so the snow will be frozen solid to walk on and not posthole. (Which is where your one leg breaks through the show. It's a pain to get out and makes for slow going.

Moonshine hiked most of the PCT last year. He told me about a meadow 6 miles away from Crabtree that is really nice and we should camp there.

I ended up missing it and kept hiking for a couple more miles and camped at Tyndall creek with some other hikers. A couple JMT (John Muir Trail) hikers and 5 PCT hikers nice campsite and right by water to.

I kept seeing notes from DustBunny to Pockets and Hugs saying where she was camping at and to meet her. I was writing on her notes saying that's where I was going just for fun lol. Pockets and hugs where going up Whitney when we where on out way down. So I don't think we will see them tonight.

The plan for tomorrow is to wake up at 4am and get over forester pass and over Kersarge pass(7mile side trail off the PCT into onion valley) and into the town Independence before the post office closes (4pm) to pick up my resupply and bounce box. 2 mountain passes and 21 miles Big day tomorrow well see how it goes.
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