>>292954Whitney isn't much fun unless you do it in the winter. All of this area is pretty heavily hiked. I don't usually mind meeting folks on trails, but that one is kinda a mess of too-many tourists.
If you are heading out this way, though, you'll be going through the desert and should make a stop at fossil falls. Only takes an hour or two to walk all the way through, but it's very pretty. Turn right before the big, red cinder-cone on the right as you're going north on the 395.
