Destroying nature to make draw attention to yourself via social media Dennis Wyatt
If you are lucky enough to win the lottery to hike Mt. Whitney – the highest peak in the lower 48 states at 14,505 feet in the Southern Sierra – during the optimum hiking season between May 1 and Nov. 1, you will be given a blue bag when you pick up your permit.
The blue bag is for the No. 2. Even with strictly enforced caps of 160 people a day that can be on the 22.5-mile round-trail with 6,565 feet in elevation feet elevation gain, the rugged high Sierra environment in the Mt. Whitney Zone of which most is above the tree line cannot handle people using the standard shovel when they have to go.