Mount Whitney
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Highest peak in the United States, excluding Alaska.
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“Some people did their first hike with me, and now they’ve done Mount Whitney and I haven’t even done that,” Bérruz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
The Kern River originates near Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, and winds through Tulare County before it meanders into Kern County down to the valley floor, and through Bakersfield.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
Unfortunately, he had to bail at Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the Lower 48, because of a dislocated knee.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
The new task force will be commissioned Sunday and will see the USS Mount Whitney, a Blue Ridge class amphibious command ship previously part of the Navy’s African and European 6th Fleet, join it.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
In a hundred miles we passed two oases, the first at Olancha, the second around Lone Pine, a small, tree-filled town where a lot of mountain buffs turn off for the Mount Whitney Portal.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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