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Our first view of the Sierra Nevadas
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Margie's Merry-Go-Round Restaurant...good eats!
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Kate peruses Margie's menu
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Margie's Merry-Go-Round restaurant in Lone Pine
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Our hotel in Lone Pine
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Morning light on the Sierra's
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Last piece of wall left standing after 1872 Lone Pine earthquake
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Fueling up for the assault on Mt. Whitney
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View from the Whitney portal road
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Typical Alabama Hills formation
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Our objective...
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Another view from the Alabama Hills
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Yet another view of Mt. Whitney
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Lone Pine Peak
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The road was "closed." Turns out we could have driven all the way up
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Kate prepares for our assault on the portal road
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There was still plenty of snow at 8,000 feet!
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A boulder tumbled off the mountain and left a huge dent and a web of cracks in the road
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Nearly there...
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Another view of Mt. Whitney in the distance
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Cozy cabins on the slopes of Lone Pine Peak
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The north face of Lone Pine Peak
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Oh, the majesty!
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This was a close as we were getting without more gear
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Mountain view
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Mt. Whitney through the pines
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Kate poses next to a snow boulder
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Last view of Mt. Whitney
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The car is down there somewhere...
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The Owens Valley and Owens lake with the distance
