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August 2, 2023
Only a lucky few can win the permit lottery, but anyone can hike these alternate trails that give you a similar experience.
December 16, 2020
Destroying nature to make draw attention to yourself via social media Dennis Wyatt If you are lucky enough to win the lottery to hike Mt. Whitney – the highest peak in the lower 48 states at 14,505 feet in the Southern Sierra – during the optimum hiking season between May 1 and Nov. 1, you will be given a blue bag when you pick up your permit. The blue bag is for the No. 2. Even with strictly enforced caps of 160 people a day that can be on the 22.5-m...