Skip the Mt Whitney portal road and check out horseshoe meadows road about 4 miles south of the portal. Its 2.5k higher doesn't have the guest traffic and has better views. Better yet do both.I'm still looking forward to the ride up Mount Whitney, I think. Friend's who have done it thought it was pretty spectacular, to include looking down over the road at the back of a Bald Eagle soaring below. One guy had to get the O2 at the top. My son-in-law ran up the darn thing.