3/ I love the mellow pace of hiking for sunset at Whitney. Everyone is going down to be off the switchbacks by dark, back to camp by dark, etc. Then you get to the top and no one is there and no one is coming.
Shadow of the summit casting across the valley onto the Inyo mountains to the east
Summit stone hut with sunset behind
Holding summit sign that's metal with the name mount whitney and 14,500 cut into it with sunset shining through
Summit plaque bolted to a rock