Each of these 14ers can be dayhiked, in which case you don’t need any permits. Of course, a day permit is required year-around for Whitney/Muir, but this is a simple self-issue one if you go outside of the quota season.
Except for Starlight, I’ve done them all as dayhikes, in fact several times each for most. The longer ones (Williamson, Split, Sill, N Pal, T’bolt) were pretty much dawn-to-dusk affairs so take a headlamp, just in case.
My personal list of 14ers doesn’t include Starlight or Polemonium (although I’ve climbed them). How can one include these bumps on a ridge and not Keeler and the other needles south of Whitney, which are much more prominent bumps? And the horns of Williamson? I may be in the minority on this subject, but...well...that’s one of the nice things about mountaineering - we are each allowed our own ideas about what to climb, and how to count them.
Another idea on the 14ers is to climb each in winter, and I have two to go: Russell and Middle Pal. But this is off your topic.
