Day 0
We meet at the Cottonwood Lakes Trailhead in the Eastern Sierra High Country in the evening. This is about 35 minutes from the town of Lone Pine. We spend the night at the Horshoe Meadows campground the properly acclimate for our trip. No dinner is provided, but we will have tents available for your use.

Day 1
After breakfast (provided) we head West on the Cottonwood Pass trail over Cottonwood Pass and into Sequoia National Park. We will make camp for the night in the Upper Rock Creek area or Soldier Lake. Approx. a 10-mile day.

Day 2
We continue on in Sequoia National Park down Rock Creek towards our goal of Mount Whitney passing through spectacular alpine terrain. Our goal for the night Crabtree Meadows. Approx. a 9-mile day.

Day 3
Today is an easy, partial rest day as we bump camp a short distance to Guitar Lake, our basecamp for the ascent of Mount Whitney. We rest up all afternoon preparing for our hike to the top of the lower 48 states.

Day 4
An early start finds us hiking up towards Mount Whitney with light packs since we will be back at our basecamp for the evening. We climb Mt Whitney from the West, avoiding most of the crowds. After summiting we descend back to our cozy basecamp or possibly bumping our camp back to Crabtree Meadows.

Day 5
We retrace our steps of day two.

Day 6
We retrace our steps of day One, arriving back at the trailhead in the late afternoon.