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I found the transportation for my friends and myself from Whitney Portal to LAX. The cheapest option is 16 passenger Stretch Limo Hummer H2 or Lincoln Navigator. My concern is if that kind of car will be able to drive to Whitney Portal and back to Lone Pine. I do not know that road so I would appreciate any feedback.
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It's good road, paved all the way. No worries.
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I bring up this point for the trivia. There's a classic comedy called "The Long Long Trailer". It's famous because it features Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and was made around the time of their "I Love Lucy" series. The climactic scene, where the two are pulling (what else?) a long, long trailer home that gets stuck on a narrow twisting mountain road in the Rockies, was actually filmed on the old Whitney Portal Road. It's worth ordering on Netflix if you are really bored.
But be assured, the Whitney Portal Road you see in that movie has been substantially widened and improved over the past 50 years.
(My disclaimer - the only reason I know about this film is because my sister is the world's biggest "I Love Lucy" fan.)
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...and Ricky won't be driving. Great movie!
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I found the transportation for my friends and myself from Whitney Portal to LAX. The cheapest option is 16 passenger Stretch Limo Hummer H2 or Lincoln Navigator. My concern is if that kind of car will be able to drive to Whitney Portal and back to Lone Pine. I do not know that road so I would appreciate any feedback. Check this out -- The WP Road won't bother an H2!  I like the text: In these days of high gas prices and consumer consciousness, you can be pretty much guaranteed that if you're driving a Hummer H2, about two-thirds of the people on the road hate you for it. And that's a shame. Driving an H2 is not unlike having a pet bear on a leash. You get noticed no matter where you go, and everyone recognizes what your pet's all about.
There ain't no mistaking what it is, that's for sure. Like a bear, the 2008 Hummer H2 is an instantly recognizable symbol of power and strength. It even looks kind of like a bear, if you squint.
And, just like a bear, the things that really make a Hummer H2 special are things that it can't demonstrate in a socially acceptable way, at least not anywhere near a city. You wouldn't let your pet bear loose in the yard to impress the neighbors any more than you can do the things that the 2008 Hummer H2 is bred to do in the local public park. So, most H2 owners are prone to shouting "Yo, yo, yo, check out my pet bear!" because there ain't anything else they can do with it. Of course, I am imagining a WP bear (and his whole family) gaining entry, in its time-honored way, to a 16 passenger H2.
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Just thinking you could rent a van such as a Dodge Strider passenger van for 16 people or find a charter transport service that can deliver you and your party up and back.
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I loved the Long, Long Trailer. My borther Paul (who also posts here)and I were taken up to Whitney Portal when it was a narrow one lane road in the 50's. We used to have to watch far ahead for cars coming in the other direction so we could tell our dad to find a pull out spot. Today, it's a freeway (sort of).
Also for those who remember, there use to be a second family campground area just above the group sites where the road bends to the right. The store was there but it was nothing like what Doug has done.
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I do not know that road so I would appreciate any feedback. As noted earlier, the road is paved. The only excitement is going through the three 180-degree-turn switchbacks in the road and possibly dodging a few rocks from a recent slide.
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Also - I think a fisheries truck comes in regularly to stock that pool by the store for the bears -opps, I meant fishermen! so if that truck can figure out how to turn around then a stretch limo should be able to as well.
And AlanK - have you ever seen an H2 STRETCH limo? makes the regular H2 look diminutive.
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AlanK - have you ever seen an H2 STRETCH limo? makes the regular H2 look diminutive. Saw one once at a distance. Thank God I had the binoculars backward! 
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I met to put this link under this topic but by mistake put it under the one relating to Mt. Whitney photos from an airplane. Sorry about that. Anyway, here's the part of the movie where Lucy and Rickey are driving up the Whitney Portal Rd. Enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEGiMk1b-f8&feature=relatedhiiker
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Anyway, here's the part of the movie where Lucy and Rickey are driving up the Whitney Portal Rd.
Oh MAN that is so funny when put in the context of a known road! "I've been there!!" Geeze! The road was THAT narrow in the past!?
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[quote=Hiiker]
Geeze! The road was THAT narrow in the past!?
It may have been that narrow, but it couldn't have been that steep. The camera apparently was tilted at times to make the angle seem to be 30 degrees.
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