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Posted by BigSmoke on March 31, 2008 at 10:36:07 pm EDT
In reply to Planning a Trip to Mt Whitney July/August 2008 posted by BigSmoke on December 9, 2007 at 10:19:22 pm EST

Thanks Bill, we are both about to bust we are so excited.

Funny you should mention the weighted pack, I was just telling the wife the same thing about 45 minutes ago. We live within walking distance of a Lake (pond by normal standards) that is about 1.7 miles round trip. We are going to start doing nightly walks around the lake with weighted day packs. There is a berm damn on one end of the lake which we will zig zag up and down as we pass by and then back around again.

We hike(trail hiking) about 20-30 miles a month, even through the winter but will have to kick it up a notch to prepare for Whitney.

Every other weekend we will be doing 15 - 20 mile back country hikes with decent elevation accruals.

My biggest concern is going to be acclimatization since we live at around 100 ft. above sea level.

We plan on arriving on the 8th and overnighting in a flophouse somewhere. On the 9th a day hike to elevation from Horseshoe Meadows and on the 10th a day hike to elevation from Onion Valley.

We had no problems in the Tetons at 10,000 to 11,000 feet so I am hopeful we will suffer no ill effects at 14,500.

...as for the footgear, we both have 3 - 4 pairs of boots and they all have a good number of miles under the tread.

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