Mt. Whitney Trip Photographs - September 2005

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	Saturday, September 17th 2005 - Trail Camp to Whitney Portal

IMG_7904.jpg	9:30 am : Saturday Morning we left - and headed down to Whitney Portal. Here we are taking a quick water break just near Mirror Lake. Instead of the 6 hours + hiking up, it took us just over 3 hours to decend.
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IMG_7908.jpg	Mirror Lake - along the Mt. Whitney trail.
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IMG_7924.jpg	12:30pm : Ahhhh at last - we made it to the parking lot and back to our rental car. You can see all of our gear.
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IMG_7930.jpg	Here's Dad after he disposed of our "poop" bag - which weighed in at 16 lbs. Whoa! Mt. Whitney has a "Leave No Trace" policy, so anything you bring in you must bring out. With thousands of people visiting the mountain each year, it would become a very dirty place if they didn't enforce this. Upon receiving your permit to climb - you receive a WAG BAG which you must do your business in, and hike that bag out. It has some kind of special sand/salt substance in it to keep the aroma to a minimum - and to accelerate the decomposition.
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IMG_7940.jpg	Coming down the access road from the Portal - we stopped to take a picture of Whitney in the distance - and to think we were just at the top not so long ago.
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