We are offering one trip this year, a 30 dayer (+/-), during which you should loose about 30 pounds.

Leave Fresno :  Sunday, June 14, 2009

Guides:  PURPLE HAT  
Expected weight loss:  30#

Photographic emphasis:  Wildflowers!  Atmospherics!  Light! Night photography!

Artist in residence:  PURPLE HAT 

Start hiking at Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley (Day 1):  June 15, 2009 

Total Distance:  225 miles

Distance divided by days = 7.5 

The full moons this trip will occur on July 7.  We will take night shots of the full moon!  We will also celebrate this event with a full moon drumming!

Summit Mt. Whitney (Day 30*):  Tuesday, July 14, 2009* 
Down to Whitney Portal (Day 61):  Wednesday, July 15, 2009* 
Return to Fresno (late in the PM):  Thursday, July 16, 2009* 

Investment:  $4,525 (note:  includes all gear***, food, and travel from Fresno to Yosemite and from Mt. Whitney Portal Store back to Fresno.  All you bring are your glasses, prescriptions, and photographic** and/or art gear**).

*  Subject to weather and other circumstances beyond our control

**  Subject to weight and space restrictions. 
***Remember, you are just being loaned a tent.