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Hi We will have the 25 th year pot luck at the store so come on up and join in. Food starts around 2 PM Thanks Doug
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Thanks, got to work this weekend. Please eat extra for me.
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Congratulations for your 25th year of running Whitney Portal Store successfully.
I started to hike about 8 years ago. WPS and all people work there is the reason to come back to Mt. Whitney. Mt. Whitney game me a satisfaction of climbing mountain but all of you gave me better satisfaction in life than Mt. Whitney.
Thank you all from bottom of my heart.
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Doug Shin is right; I've only been to the portal maybe 10 times but everytime highlight of the trip was hanging out with you and other friends talking the business. Thanks for all you do everybody really admires you; respects you and appreciates you..Richard even dresses like you now!
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Hi Doug -
Curt and I will make every effort to be there and help celebrate your 25th anniversary!
Hope to see some familiar faces there!!!
Shin? Jeff?
Take care,
Stacy
ps I can bring a dessert
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Dad, I'll be waving from the east. Wish I could be there, but will be up next weekend.
Much love from the Moose Lodge!!
-L
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Congratulations on silver anniversary.
Doug, glad I got to see you again in August. Harvey
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Wow, 25 years...
I guess 25 years ago, you and Earlene were asking yourselves, "We did what?"
Over time, you stuck with it. Yes, life has its peaks and valleys, but you have your Portal.
Thank you for making Whitney Portal a very special place. The food, the atmosphere, and special people who run the Portal Store, make it the best damn place in the world.
Journey well...
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That is so awesome!!! Huge congratz! Thanks for all you do. & I hope it keeps going...
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Hi Doug -
Curt and I will make every effort to be there and help celebrate your 25th anniversary!
Hope to see some familiar faces there!!!
Shin? Jeff?
Take care,
Stacy
ps I can bring a dessert No Stacy hahahha I've already gone North 2X this year that's my quota...
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Doug,
I won't be able to make this one but I want to add my thanks for the warm welcome I always get when I come into the store and congratulations for all you achieved.
The Geezer
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Congratulations for your 25th year of running Whitney Portal Store successfully.
I started to hike about 8 years ago. WPS and all people work there is the reason to come back to Mt. Whitney. Mt. Whitney game me a satisfaction of climbing mountain but all of you gave me better satisfaction in life than Mt. Whitney.
Thank you all from bottom of my heart.
Shin What Shin said... except "I started to hike about <16 years ago>". Big time congrats Doug, Earlene & crew!
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To Doug, Doug, Earlene and the Portal Crew,
Thanks and congratulations for 25 years at the Whitney Portal Store, a national treasure.
Your helpfulness, generosity, and sincerity have positively and profoundly touched many people who have ventured on the Mountain.
My family wishes you folks much happiness.
Jim F
PS: Look forward to seeing you up on the Mountain this Saturday.
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Congratulations Doug!!
That's very cool!
I'll see if I can make it up, not sure yet.
"The mountains are calling and I must go."
John Muir
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Thanks for all you do! Wish I could be there but the wife and I are having our 40th. I told her you get less time for murder.
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Well, after an unfortunate calamity of errors with Fed Ex today...it looks like we're stuck at home waiting for our Jeep bumper to arrive tomorrow, or Monday?!?!? Today was the scheduled delivery date, so we took the stock bumper, skid plate, and lights off of the Jeep this morning and waited for the the new bumper to arrive. By 2pm, we started calling FedEx for an ETA. They called back at 3pm to tell us that our package (that was in Palmdale at 2am this morning) was now BACK in Riverside and they couldn't explain how that happened or when the bumper would actually be here!  So, once again...we wait! Doug, I'm so sorry we couldn't be there to help celebrate with you and Earlene...but if anyone's interested, I have all the fixin's here for two batches of Magic Cookie Bars  Sorry again, Stacy & Curt ps Hoping to make it to the Memorial Hike...with more Magic Cookie Bars! 
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Good morning Doug and Earlene,
I wish I could be there to help celebrate your 25th year ownership of the Whitney Portal Store. Over the years I would guess that sometimes it probably didn’t seem like a decision to “celebrate” when seasons were bad and work days were long and hard. But what a destination it has become for weary hikers and gathering of friends.
Your greetings and welcomes to every person that comes up to the Portal are so genuine; people are just drawn to you….to the Portal. I have only a vague memory of the store from earlier trips up Whitney when I was younger, and then a number of years went by before I came back to Whitney… but I remember our 1995 Whitney Hike and meeting you, Doug, at the Portal Store that year… and you’ve not changed at all since. You and Earlene have always made my family and me feel so special on every trip to the Portal. Thank you.
Truly, I think the celebration is ours that you made that decision 25 years ago.
Rosie
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike
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Coincidentally, today is going to be at least 150 summits of Mt. Whitney for me. I was trying to think of something big to do, but getting it done and heading down to the Thompson's celebration at what I consider to be the center of the earth couldn't be a better way to go.
Congratulations and please reconsider the retirement. We want you and Earlene around for many more years. You do make Whitney a more special place.
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Cheers! 
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