Mount Langley

October 5, 2024. Climbing the southern-most 14er in the United States. After climbing Mount Whitney, our group decided to rest for a couple of days before tackling the 2nd 14,000-er of our trip: Mount Langely. Although Langley is only about 150m shorter than Whitney, the fact that it isn’t the tallest mountain in the lower […]

Mount Whitney

October 2, 2024. Hiking to the summit of the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. *Note that because of the varying measurements by my own devices on this trip, the numbers above are the “official” ones. Denali, the tallest mountain in the USA and all of North America, has never been on my radar […]

Lone Pine Lake

October 1, 2024. Pleasant hiking to a beautiful lake in the southern Sierra Nevada. I was lucky enough to be invited along on another of Bhaskar’s adventures to finish off the 2024 hiking season. He managed to get a coveted permit to hike to the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous […]