First 14er

 

On Friday I climbed my first 14,000 ft hike. I climbed White Mountain Peak, located outside of Bishop, California. I went to sleep near 11:00 pm and got three hours of sleep, the alarm went off at 2:00am and I was on the road at 3:00 with a full tank of gas. I drove four hours and was at the trail-head at 7:15. The hike would take me 3-1/2 hours to reach summit. I did not have time to acclimate. I left the house at 2,000 drove to 11,200 and climb to 14,252 in just a few hours. I felt fine on the way up. I had no issues. On the way down, I got back down a mile and half and there is this little climb, it kicked my butt. I was spent. I now had a headache, I think it was not having enough sleep. I do not believe it was from the altitude because It went away after eating in Lone Pine (8,000 ft). My right foot was blistering, I had added mole skin on the way up, but the issue was the mole skin was rubbing against my little toe. After the hike I looked at the toe and all the skin was missing (ouch). I band-aided it and band-aided the toe next to the other toe to keep them from rubbing. I also got some wind burn. I was glad that I brought my wind breaker. The wind was cold and blowing.

I finished the hike. It was 3-1/2 up and 3 hours down.