Mount Whitney
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Highest peak in the United States, excluding Alaska.
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Just east of Tulare County stands the 14,000-foot peak of Mount Whitney, part of the Sierra Nevada’s southern range, which is holding more than 300 percent of its average snowpack.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
The terrain includes the deepest canyon in the country, the largest trees in the world and Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Research ecologist Zachary McDonald, 31, is in his element at the summit of Mount Whitney, which often endures whiteout conditions, 180-mph winds, and temperatures that drop to minus-30 degrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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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