Highest Peak in Lower 48, Mt Whitney, CA 2021
(1 in a multiple picture album)
Until Alaska joined the union, Mt Whitney was the highest peak in the USA. For all of its stature, it sort of hides away back behind Lone Pine Peak which looks higher from the distance.
What a spectacular mound of granite is the Sierra Nevada. For those Forty Niners trekking across the western landscape, it presented a monumental hinderance to their goal. They had to find a way around it which took weeks of extra travel.
Highest Peak in Lower 48, Mt Whitney, CA 2021
(1 in a multiple picture album)
Until Alaska joined the union, Mt Whitney was the highest peak in the USA. For all of its stature, it sort of hides away back behind Lone Pine Peak which looks higher from the distance.
What a spectacular mound of granite is the Sierra Nevada. For those Forty Niners trekking across the western landscape, it presented a monumental hinderance to their goal. They had to find a way around it which took weeks of extra travel.