Starting along the Mount Whitney Trail.After about a mile, joining the North Fork Lone Pine Creek Trail.Following the creek.View back.Approaching the base of a ledge system known as the Ebersbacher (or "E") Ledges.Climbing through a brushy corridor to the start of E Ledges.Class 2.Exposed section of the E Ledges.View from a switchback. The route continues on the right.Final climb to the outlet of Lower Boy Scout Lake, top right.Lower Boy Scout Lake.Continuing along North Fork Lone Pine Creek Trail, which hugs the south shore of Lower Boy Scout Lake.Leaving the trail for the north slope of Thor Peak.From the north slope, view back toward Lower Boy Scout Lake.View west toward Mount Whitney.Loose and steep talus. Class 2.Angling toward a weakness in the cliff band, top left.Near the top of the slope, contouring to the climber's left.View back toward Mount Carillon (left) and The Cleaver (center).Approaching the ridge.Thor Peak's broad east slope. About 600 vertical feet to the summit.View back toward Whitney Portal.Class 2.Approaching Thor Peak's summit.Thor Peak summit. View west.Closeup on Mount Whitney.View northwest. Mount Russell is top center.On the descent, backtracking to a notch along Thor Peak's west ridge.Inside the notch, descending Thor Peak's south slope.View of Mount Irvine.View back toward the notch.Steep, loose terrain on the descent to Mirror Lake.View back at a Class 3 weakness in a cliff band around 11,400 feet.A wide shot of the cliff band on Thor Peak's south slope.View back.Walking around the north shore of Mirror Lake.View back at Mirror Lake before rejoining the Mount Whitney Trail.Back on the Mount Whitney Trail.Multiple creek crossings along the Mount Whitney Trail.An elevated trail cuts through the marsh.Whitney Portal below.View back.Many, many switchbacks along the trail.View back at the turnoff for the Old Mount Whitney Trail (left), a more direct route back to Whitney Portal.View from the Old Mount Whitney Trail.Back at Whitney Portal, short road walk to the car.
