Cameron and Maren's JMT Adventure: Hail to Mt. Whitney!!!

The day we were going to summit Mt. Whitney we woke up kinda early to make it to the top. We left our secret lake and dusted away our footprints so that no one knew that we had been there. We hiked quickly up to the place where you can drop off your packs. At that point we had to convince Allison to let us hike to the top because she was worried about an approaching storm. She told us if we saw lightening or heard thunder we would have to turn around. We put-on all of our warm clothes, grabbed water and a bar and headed up the two mile trail to the top. It smelled like pee soooo badly (GRODY.) There were a lot of people coming down when we were going up to the summit. We had to pull over so many times but it only ended up taking us an hour. After a while Allison told us not to pull over any longer. She was excited that we hiked as fast as we did. When we got to the top it was so foggy that we could not see anything at first but after a few minutes it cleared up and we got to see some amazing views. We laid down at the top for a while and took a lot of pictures while this really fat marmot kept on trying to eat our nerds (it was not very successful.) When we were about to start heading down it started hailing pretty hard for a while and then it started going on and off. We ran half way down the mountain and only stopped when it stopped hailing. We got down to the big pee rock and headed down the hill toward a campsite. That night we were really exhausted but excited that the next day would be our final day on the JMT.