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  3. Mount Whitney Trail - Wikipedia

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    Wilderness permits are always required to use the trail, and between May 1 and November 1, a quota permits only 60 overnight users and 100 day users per day. [2] Beginning in 2012, the Mt. Whitney permit lottery switched over from mail-in applications to an online format.

  4. Alabama Hills - Wikipedia

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    The Alabama Hills serve as a gateway to Mount Whitney and the Eastern Sierra Nevada.While dispersed camping is very popular with the backpackers, car campers, and the RV community, [5] the region's fragile ecosystem and increasing numbers of visitors prompted the Bureau of Land Management to discourage the practice, appealing that camping in campgrounds helps maintain the area's great scenery ...

  5. Inyo National Forest - Wikipedia

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    Together, the wilderness areas and parks form one contiguous area of protected wilderness of more than 1.5 million acres (6,100 km 2). The Inyo National Forest was named after Inyo County, California, in which much of the forest resides. The name "Inyo" comes from a Native American word meaning "dwelling place of the great spirit". [7]

  6. Mount Whitney - Wikipedia

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    Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [1] It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) [8] west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater Basin in Death ...

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  8. John Muir Trail - Wikipedia

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    A permit is required to hike the JMT, which can be obtained from the national park or forest where the hiker begins the hike, and is available 168 days in advance. [36] [37] This single permit is valid for the entire hike. Permit reservations can be hard to obtain for JMT thru-hikers, but a portion of permits are reserved for walk-ins.

  9. Smithsonian Institution Shelter - Wikipedia

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    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. It is the highest permanent building in the Contiguous United States.