Just wanted to post my impressions of DVD. It documents a winter ascent of Whitney via the MR. My girlfriend and I are planning on doing the MR in September and we figured the DVD would be a great way to get an idea of what we are in for. The DVD is simply awesome. The quality of the production is top notch and the video and sound quality are really great. As someone who has never been to the Whitney area it really gave a great general sense of the route. Obviously, we will be doing the route without the snow, so there will be some differences with our experience, but it was still great to see what parts looked like. I would really love to see a similar video done of the route during summer conditions (take more of my money!!).
The music was really nice and the pictures of the tents glowing from the inside at night made us wish we were on Whitney right now!!
All-in-all a great video..we will watch it a few more times before we go and probably again once we get back so we can correlate what we watched with what it is like to be there. We both made the observation that it certainly seems like climbing in the winter makes the route more "easy" than the route descriptions in the summer. With the couliers filled with snow it looks like you can tramp right up the valley and bypass the E-ledges and not have to scramble over rocks up the steep part above the notch to the summit...
We've never done any hiking in real snow (other than a brief shuffle through some snow on our way down Longs Peak..) but it certainly looks like something I'd like to get into!
Anyway..here is the direct link to the video if you are interested (I figure I'll give him a plug!) We really did enjoy it!
http://www.customflix.com/Store/ShowTtl.jsp?id=205683Regards..
BeachAV8R
