Grace is on a 6 week internship on the John Muir trail on the Whitney Portal. She and 5 other interns are studying sustainable camping on the JMT. They were on the trail during the first hurricane to hit California EVER and if you say it downgraded to a tropical storm by the time that it hit California, then it's been since 1938.
Mt Whitney was supposed to take a direct hit! And I was worried. It turns out that the team decided to hunker down in base camp and wait out the storm. They had 36 hours of high wind and rain and came through it without any damages or injuries.
The report now, a few days later, is that they have crystal blue skies and lots of running water.
