Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Kudos to trail workers at Trail Crest (pictures)

Our group of 4 finished HST last Thursday and observed the hard work of the trail builders up at Trail Crest. I snapped off a few pictures and told them that I would post them on "The Message Board."

Hope this link works: http://picasaweb.google.com/taichigolf/TrailWorkersNearTrailCrest

We all had the famous burgers at the Portal Store and they were so, so good!

Nice pics, but what is "HST"?

High Sierra Trail.

We need to start a glossary, or list of acronyms. Fred?????

I have a note in the Message Posting Tips about spelling out words with the acronyms to make posts easier to understand and search for. I also list HST, JMT, and PCT in a list of things to search for.


What do you have in mind? There is always Google. Here is the Wikipedia link.

You can play with these:
AMS – Acute Mountain Sickness
HST – High Sierra Trail
INF – Inyo National Forest
JMT – John Muir Trail
LP – Lone Pine
MMWT – Main Mount Whitney Trail
MR – Mountaineers Route
NF – North Fork or National Forest
NP - National Park
PCT – Pacific Crest Trail
YNP – Yosemite National Park

nice pics, Icystair! I particularly love pic#3. It may not be obvious what they are doing, but I know those singlejack hammers well......they have moved the small boulders into place, then they are chocking them, so that they will stay there, but filling the surrounding holes with gravel. Where do they get the gravel? You make it...using hammers to make small rocks into tiny rocks. Hard, dusty work.