Day 54

17 Miles

Although somewhat awake already, the weekenders woke up the rest of camp by yelling, “Everybody, there’s hot water!”. I’m glad their group had water for coffee, but I would have rather had another hour of silence. The lake was nice for having water in the morning, and for doing some rinsing of clothes. After we got started, we ran into Studio 54. He was shooting for a water source a little closer than the one we had in mind. He sped off and we made our way down to Rock Creek. We stopped to eat a snack and Shade caught up to us. Chatted with him for a bit about the next couple days and the Bishop resupply. Made it to Rock Creek, then immediately climbed up out to Guyot Creek for lunch. The afternoon hiking was smooth, but still arrived at camp exhausted. We passed Treetrunk, Tiger Blood, and some other hikers coming off of summiting Whitney and putting in a few late miles. We made camp just above Whitney Creek, later joined by most of the hikers we’ve been around the past couple days: Studio 54, Full Moon, Polkadot, Lego, Maverick, Shade. Going to try to get to sleep early tonight so we can start the climb up Whitney before the sun gets brutal.