Hey. My name is John, I'm a journalism student at San Diego State (yes, that SDSU in the news today,) but I am working on a features story for a class (and possibly the school paper) on backpacking. I want to ask some questions to some people who have summited Whitney via Whitney Portal and also someone who has hiked the entire John Muir trail. I myself have summited Mt. Whitney in 2005, and anby jgamboa - General Discussion