Everybody say "Thank you Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 9: The Ascent for teaching me that Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States."
(Also, in a roundabout way, for making me learn that the Secret Service weren't even assigned to protect the President until the aftermath of McKinley's assassination in 1901, and before then were assigned to combat the counterfeiting of coins. In a tragic twist of irony, they were also set up by Abraham Lincoln just hours before he got shot. Damn, if only he'd had the Secret Service...)
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Sunset comes early east of Tumanguya / Mount Whitney.
Near Whitney Portal, southern Sierra Nevada, California. 17 Nov 2019.
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Mount Hitchcock from Hitchcock Lakes at the base of the final approach to the summit of Mount Whitney from the west on May 20, 2022
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PCT SOBO 2023 Entry 2: Pals, passes, and peaks
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View of Mount Whitney from the Best Western Plus Frontier Motel by Mark Stevens
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A view from outside a motel room in Lone Pine, looking to the west to the peaks and ridges around Mount Whitney. My thinking in composing this image was to zoom in and have those ridgelines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains filling up much of the image itself. A little bit of blue skies would be above, but they had a slight haze to it, and I wanted to minimize that. The other thing that caught my attention was the way the ridges seemed to layer themselves one after the other leading to Mount Whitney.
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