@hikingdude hiked it overnight starting around 10:30 pm. Wanted to get crunchy snow on the way up and be down early enough before it’s too slushy. It was tricky to plan timing since I normally speed solo this and my nephew had never been above 3000 meters. I had no idea what pace we’d be doing, but it all worked out great to the minute for sunrise!
@elaterite@hikingdude it’s so pretty in the morning it’s worth the effort (also, I wanted to get as far as possible in the dark so he wouldn’t get discouraged by seeing the immensity of it all).
@jds@hikingdude I somewhat understand. I never scrambled over an icy snowfield to bag a peak at dawn, but I have done plenty of night hiking to capture nice morning light for a photo or night hiked several miles back to camp after an evening photoshoot. Being a night owl anyway, I rather enjoy hiking at night. But it would be amazing to see the sunrise from the top of Whitney, wow!
@elaterite@hikingdude I love moving at night also. Ironically, I’m most often summiting Whitney in the dark and catching sunrise on the way down. No summit this trip though, the conditions further past the JMT junction weren’t acceptable to take my nephew over so we made sunrise at trail crest our goal.
About the best capture I could get of the earth shadow during sunrise with a phone (or Belt of Venus, thanks for the info @KrajciTom
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