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Only a lucky few can win the permit lottery, but anyone can hike these alternate trails that give you a similar experience. 

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...