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The Mount Whitney Trail is a hiking trail that climbs Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the contiguous United States. It starts at Whitney Portal, 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Lone Pine, California. The hike is 21.4 mi (34.4 km) round trip, with an elevation gain of over 6,100 feet (1,860 m).
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 ...
Mt. Whitney just opened to hikers and backpackers. It's a tough 22-mile day hike, with or without the pandemic. Hiking Mt. Whitney during (what feels like) the end of the world
Whitney Portal (formerly Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp) is the end of the Whitney Portal road in Inyo County, California, 13.7 miles (22 km) west of Lone Pine at an elevation of 8,374 feet (2,552 m). [1] Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; it is the trailhead for the Mount Whitney Trail.
At 14,505 feet, Mt. Whitney is the highest peak in the contiguous United States. Located just off the PCT, it's a long and tough climb, but most PCT hikers are already acclimated to the elevation ...
Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.
One of the primary challenges of climbing Mount Whitney is the rapid gain in altitude, which lowers the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream. Commonly called altitude sickness, the condition can ...