There's this place called the Candy Store just by the trailhead and the whole time back I was looking forward to a refreshing drink!

I was trying on some new gear for my trip to Mount Whitney and figured 10 miles at 3k feet was perfect.   Well that merino wool top was excruciatingly hot but I kept it on despite the heat because bugs were everywhere!

The way up to summit was pretty painless and it had a nice challenging scramble/climb the last half mile to summit.   With the extra weight on my back I tumbled a couple times up.  I laughed it off knowing we were almost there!

We were so thankful the tent was packed! We ended up setting up part of it to provide shade…and there we were “sitton top of the peak”