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Mountain Whitney Cirque. |
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Mt. Whitney at sunrise. |
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Looking down the route with Iceberg Lake below. |
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Day Needle, Keeler Needle, and Mt. Whitney (left to right). Both the East Buttress and East Face routes on Whitney ascend near the right skyline. |
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Tom Mason climbing pitch 3 of East Buttress, Mt. Whitney. This is one crux and involves some 5.7 face moves with not much pro. There is a variation with better pro to the right. |
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Tom Mason climbing pitch 8 of East Buttress, Mt. Whitney. |
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lovin it |
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East Buttress of Mt Whitney based off of SuperTopo. If taking the 5.8 variation, you basically solo most of P1 (cl. 4), so P1 & P2 can be linked with a 70m rope and probably a 60m rope. |
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After we got down from Whitney, we went to climb at the Lions Den. The topo clearly states: 4 wheel drive. |
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