Sierra - Kennedy Meadows to Mt. Whitney, Day 3

June 19 & 20

18 miles to Chicken Spring Lake

20 miles to Guitar Lake 

The plan from here was to meet at Guitar Lake.  At this point we all had begun to hike at different paces, so decided to just do our own thing and meet up at the approach to Mt. Whitney.  3D had the idea to summit Whitney at night and thus be standing at the highest point in the continental U.S. At sunrise on summer solstice.

Great plan....but we were all so exhausted by the time we got to Guitar lake at 10pm, or so, on the night of he 20th that we all waited till morning to hike. 

Pano from Whitney summit