The Lowest to Highest Route (L2H) goes from lowest point in the US, Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park (-282 feet/-85.5 m), to the highest point in the contiguous US, Mt. Whitney (14,505 feet/4,421 m). We hiked this route from 11/25/2024 to 12/08/2024, including a few days off in Lone Pine. See below for an interactive map of our L2H route with daily stats, our daily trail journals, and our gear list.
General Information:
Daily Trail Journals:
Map
This map was made using Tim’s daily GPS data recorded with his Garmin Fenix watch. Click or tap on the map to see stats from each day and a link to the corresponding blog posts. Observe that the route got a little bit crazy towards the end — we went partway up Mount Whitney on day 8, then returned to Lone Pine for several days to get snow gear, then made another try for the Summit on days 9-11. We didn’t make it to the top, but we did intersect our “footpath” from 2018 when we summited Mount Whitney from the PCT (shown on map)!
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