Roy, Eric and me heading up the old Whitney Portal trailhead on for a trip up Mt. Whitney's East Buttress (9AM)

Lunch at Upper Boy Scout Lake

Roy and Eric at UBSL

Sunset from camp (6:30)

UBSL

Alpinglow on our way up to Iceberg lake at 6:46AM

Sunrise colors Mt. Whitney's east face

The east buttress route is just to the left of the right horizon of the mountain

The entire Mt. Russell East Arete route on the horizon from the base of the buttress

Proof I was there

On aproach to the 1st pitch

Eric leads up the first pitch

8:24AM

Roy and Eric at the ledge after our first pitch

View down from the first pitch

Eric on a short 5.7

The Russell fish hook

Me getting ready to belay

Looking down the route after 5 pitches, two climbers a few pitches below Pee Wee Pilar.

Climbing in the shady spots almost numbed our hands from the cold

Eric and Roy making room for me on our next belay ledge.

Eric leads up a good 60' before puting in the first piece of pro' on this pitch

End of the 9th pitch, transition to short rope alpine style climbing and try not to bomb anyone

Me on top of Mt. Whitney (14,505'), yet again. 4 hours and 20 minutes, 9 traditional alpine pitches and a few hundred feet of short roping.

Lunch table on the top of the world.

Monday sunrise

Coming back down the slaps the next morning.

Ice on the slabs; Eric suggests stepping only where the water is moving, ha.

The East Butt' casts a clear shadow on the rest of the face of Whitney

Looking south from the E Ledges