Highlights

From start to end

Parking area

The trailhead is off this road hidden in the campground

The trailhead

The trailhead

After five minutes you hit the road again

After five minutes you hit the road again: look for this sign

Towards Meysan Lake

Towards Meysan Lake

Towards Meysan Lake

Towards Meysan Lake

Towards Meysan Lake

Towards Meysan Lake

The only junction: turn right

Towards Meysan Lake

Towards Meysan Lake (Mt Leconte to the left and Mt Mallory to the right)

Waterfalls before the first lake

LeConte (top left) and Mallory (top right)

Leave the trail and ascend towards the sphinx rock

The lower Meysan Lake from above

Dead Bristlecone tree

Dead Bristlecone tree

Dead bristlecone tree

Dead bristlecone tree

Not Mt Irvine

Western slopes of the lower Meysan lake

The first false summit

The lower Meysan Lake from above

The lower Meysan Lake from above

Mt Mallory (left) and false summit

Peaks of Mt Mallory

Towards the false summit

Towards the false summit

Towards the false summit

Mt Whitney and Russell

Mt LeConte

Mt LeConte and upper Meysan lake

First false summit

Lone Pine Peak?

Lower Meysan Lake

Consultation Lake and Mt Whitney

Whitney's mountaineering route

Owen's Valley

Whitney and Russell

Russell and Carillion

Whitney's mountaineering route

Looking down from the first false summit

The first false summit

The second false summit

The real summit is barely visiblt in the background

Another false summit

Another false summit

Consultation lake and the switchbacks of the Whitney trail

Where we came from

Following the ridge

The real summit

The real summit

Mt LeConte and Mallory

Arc Pass and Mt McAdie

Mt LeConte and behind it Mt Langley

View from Langley to McAdie

View North with Great Western Divide, Whitney and Williamson

Mt Irvine from Mt Russell

The route viewed from Mt Russell