Mt.Whitney Hike
Mt.Whitney Hike
Routes USA CaliforniaLone Pine
Mt.Whitney Hike

Lone Pine, California, USA

Mt.Whitney Hike

Length12 mi
Elev. Gain6337 ft
Est. Steps28000

Forest

Lake

Scenic views

Wild flowers

Mountain

Cave

Waterfall

Wild life

Grassland

Fierce animal

Overgrown

Off trail

Muddy

Rocky

No shade

Bugs

Steep slope

No/weak signal

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Introduction
Mt.Whitney Hike is a 12 mile (28,000-step) route located near Lone Pine, California, USA. This route has an elevation gain of about 6337 ft and is rated as hard. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
My.Whitney trail is rated very hard hike. It starts from Mt.Whitney portal starting elevation of 8360 ft. It’s a 23 miles round trip hiking total ascent of 14,505 ft elevation. So have to prepare very well for this hike to get used high altitude hike. Have min 5 to 6 liters of water and plenty of food. Look of various obstacles including ice on the way and rocks falling on the ridge line. It has awesome views with meadows, Rocky Mountain. You can take stop at 3 miles line pine lake, 6 miles outpost camp before climbing 99 switchbacks to reach Trail Crest from there it’s 2 miles to the summit.
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Trail Crest

Tourist Attraction
Trail Crest is a mountain trail pass on the Mount Whitney Trail that crosses the Sierra Crest. East of the pass are 97 switchbacks leading down to Trail Camp in Inyo National Forest. West of the pass is Sequoia National Park and the trail leading 2 miles (3.2 km) north to the summit of Mount Whitney.

Mount Whitney Trail

Tourist Attraction
The Mount Whitney Trail is a trail that climbs Mount Whitney. It starts at Whitney Portal, 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Lone Pine, California. The hike is about 22 mi (35 km) round trip, with an elevation gain of over 6,100 feet (1,860 m). It is an extremely popular trail, and its access is restricted by quotas from May to October.

List of mountain peaks of California

Place
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of the U.S. State of California.The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of California by elevation.

List of mountain ranges of California

Place
The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System.

List of California fourteeners

Place
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet (4267 meters). This is a complete list of the 12 fourteeners in the U.S. state of California with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence. The main fourteener article has a list of all of the fourteeners in the United States, as well as references, more information about how the list is determined, and caveats about accuracy.

List of the major 3000-meter summits of California

Place
The following sortable table describes the 46 mountain peaks of the U.S. state of California with at least 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.

Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708

Place
Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 was a domestic non-scheduled passenger flight between Hawthorne Industrial Airport, Nevada (HTH) and Hollywood-Burbank Airport, California (BUR/KBUR), that crashed into the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, near Lone Pine, on February 18, 1969, killing all 35 passengers and crew on board.

Smithsonian Institution Shelter

Building
The Smithsonian Institution Shelter, also known as the Mount Whitney Summit Shelter and the Mount Whitney Hut, was built in 1909 on the summit plateau of Mount Whitney, in the Sierra Nevada within Sequoia National Park, in California.

Whitney Classic

Place
The Whitney Classic is an 136-mile-long (219 km) endurance mountain bike race that is held in late September or October every year. The ride runs from the Badwater Basin in Death Valley to Whitney Portal. Badwater, at 279 feet (85 m) below sea level, is the lowest place in the North America and Whitney Portal at 8,360 feet (2,550 m) is the trailhead that leads to Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).

List of the major 4000-meter summits of California

Place
The following sortable table comprises the 16 mountain peaks of the U.S. State of California with at least 4000 meters (13,123 feet) of topographic elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Route Details

Length

12 mi

Elev. Gain

6337 ft

Est. Steps

28000
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