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| no partners | | Mount Langley, the southernmost 14'er in the United States, is located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in eastern California. Langley is the third easiest of California's fourteeners to climb, after Whitney and White. This area is by permit only.
We left on Thursday late afternoon. It is roughly a 530 mile drive - about eight and a half hours - to where we camped for the first night, Horseshoe Meadow. Friday Morning, after a night of acclimatization at ten thousand feet, we backpacked 6.5 miles to the scenic Cottonwood lakes, setting up camp on the shores of LongLake, elevation 11,485. The distance is not long, but the elevation will be a factor in our progress.
A second night of acclimatization prepared us for a 4.5 mile early morning lightweight daypack summit push up (new) Army Pass. It's then a gentle but persistent grade up scree slopes and talus fields to the broad summit of Langley at 14, 042 feet. The views here are predictably expansive - Whitney to the north, the Owens River Valley to the east, the Sierras all around, and the Mojave desert far, far to the south. After we summit,we headed back down Army Pass to our Long Lake camp, and spent another night here relaxing after a taxing climb.
Sunday morning we got up early and hiked out the 6.5 miles to the car and drive back to Phoenix.
Mileage, Day 1 - 6 miles, 1200 feet of elevation gain Mileage, Day 2 - 9 miles. Summit push - 4.5 miles with 2800 feet of elevation gain. Day 3 - 6.5 miles gently down hill to the car. |
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