Video of the trip here

This was a three day, 20 mile trip I did a few weeks ago to climb Whitney via the Mountaineer's Route. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. Normally, this route is done in the spring/early summer when the chute and couloir is covered in snow, so you can just throw on some crampons and walk up. This time of year, it was snow-free, so it was a chute filled with very loose scree and talus. I mostly hugged the sides where the rock was a little better. Only one class 3 move on the final 400, but that was right at the entrance to the couloir.

This was most likely going to be my last trip in the high alpine before snow set in, so I decided to stay an extra night down along the John Muir Trail before heading back out via the standard route.