Mt Whitney, Here We Come

OMG…so things are really going my way lately!!! We were planning on doing a practice backpacking hike this wekeend to prepare for the Grand Canyon hike. So, I just had Dave call the Mt Whitney permit office to see if anyone cancelled for this weekend! You have to have a permit to hike Mt Whitney. It's a very controlled area. Anyway, they just had 6 permits come available….so we are hiking Mt Whitney (the tallest peak in the continental US) this weekend!!!!! Glad we did Half Dome ealier in the year. I can't believe were going! I'm so freakin excited!!!! about 6000 feet elevation gain and 21 miles in 2 days.