[pct-l] Lone Pine to Ashland - Hike Whitney or not?

[Brick Robbins]

2012/1/6 Yoshihiro Murakami <completewalker at gmail.com>:
> I have  seen  no  marmot at the junction. I think the permit is very
> difficult for man, and more more difficult for marmot. The junction is
> full of mankind in summer.

YMMV,

but I have personally witnessed people finding their packs with holes
in them at that junction, and seen lots marmots there.