Posted this on the Whitney Portal forum but thought some might be interested here, as the Whitney hike served as great training/perspective for our C2C hike a few months later. It's my teen son's writeup of a first-time Whitney day-hike. http://peakbagginben.blogspot.com/2014/ ... ey_21.html
The hike was last year, but he spent quite a bit of time fleshing out the details of the adventure, including life on the 395, the Portal Store pancake, and the travails of his altitude-affected dad. Warning: it's not a short read!
