Sometime around 3 a.m. on July 5 last summer, as I drove along Whitney Portal Road, I thought about a lyric from Phoebe Bridgers’ album "Punisher." “Why would somebody do this on purpose when they ...

What: Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S. at 14,505 feet. Where: West of Lone Pine. Trailhead: At the end of Whitney Portal Road. Trail: 11 miles long (10.7 miles to be exact).

First came the coronavirus closure. Then came an earthquake-triggered rockslide that shut down Whitney Portal. As the days ticked closer to July 5, our permit date to hike Mt. Whitney, I was sure my ...

Where were you at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 11? Can't remember? Well, I can. Because at that moment I was standing taller than anyone else in the 48 contiguous United States. On that morning, accompanied by ...

Update 12:46 p.m. Wednesday: Access to the Mt. Whitney trail from Whitney Portal will resume at 6 p.m. today, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The trail has been off limits to incoming hikers ...

I left the Whitney Portal Trailhead right at midnight, the sheer granite gorge brightening under another starry night in California's spectacular High Sierra. Elevation at the trailhead is just under ...

The Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S. and the trailhead for the Mt. Whitney Trail, according to KPIX-TV. Chrissinger told Storyful he was standing ...

You’ve trained and you scored permits in the annual lottery, but you still can’t go to the top of 14,505-foot Mt. Whitney. The southern Sierra peak has been off-limits to hikers this spring, a ...

To celebrate his 70th birthday, all Steve Netherby of San Clemente did was hike California’s fabled John Muir Trail. A former camping editor of Field & Stream magazine, he trekked 29 days – all solo ...

A wildfire has forced the closure of Mount Whitney’s eastern trailhead. Hikers are being evacuated, and some have had to abandon their cars. The Inyo Creek Fire, believed to have been started by ...