In the valley, it was much warmer overnight than it was on the mountain the previous night, so getting out of my sleeping bag at 4 am wasn’t terribly hard, even if I was still tired. We missed our intended 5 am start time by about 20 minutes, but still got going before sunrise.
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As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I could hear a deep humming as the wind blew; I assumed it was caused by the wind flowing past the mountains. I was a bit concerned by the wind and the cloud that had been slowly descending on us, but after I woke up briefly around 10, I noticed that I could see stars in two directions, and I decided that we were going to be fine after all.
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We may have planned to start hiking at 6:30 to get up and over Forester Pass, but absolutely nothing in that plan actually occurred.
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Quoi, Dylan, Flowers, and I again attempted to summit Mount Whitney today, but we didn’t have any more success than we did yesterday.
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Today’s attempt to summit Mount Whitney was a crazy adventure that did not go as expected.
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