Routes
The East Buttress of Mount Whitney: A Long Sierra Day
A pitch-by-pitch account of the East Buttress of Mount Whitney, a classic Sierra alpine rock route, climbed car-to-car in late May.
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sierra nevada
Snow
A Sierra Observer's Snowpit Notebook
Across fourteen winters of fieldwork above Mammoth Lakes, an independent observer named Caleb Yost has filled forty-two notebooks with snow profiles, instability tests, and what they meant.
Huts & Refuges
Summer Crew at LeConte Canyon
A backcountry ranger team keeps the John Muir Trail moving between Muir Pass and Bishop Pass. A summer with four rangers at 2,580 metres.
Rescues
A Sierra Rescue from a Couloir on Mount Whitney
Inyo County Search and Rescue spent thirty-one hours bringing a fallen climber out of the East Face of Mount Whitney in April. The route in was a corniced ridge at 13,800 feet and the route out was the same ridge, in worse light.