The northern-most (right hand, facing the mountain) of the 3 mighty ridge-lines that sweep down from the summit of Lone Pine Peak into the Owen's River Valley 7000' below.
Only a short top section of the ridge is commonly done, after hiking up the Meysan Lakes trail from Whitney Portal and traversing onto the ridge at around 11,000' ASL. This route can also be done from the valley floor however, turning it into a 7,000' grade VI alpine monster like its siblings to the left.
The middle of the 3 major ridges. Several thousand feet of scree down low leads to mostly 3rd and 4th class rock on the ridge itself, with some mandatory low 5th class pitches, including 2 pitches of unprotectable decomposing gritty slabs fairly early on, immediately after a prominent notch. Up higher the easiest terrain is found on the right hand side of the ridge, which eventually leads to the exit gully (the right, less steep of the two obvious gullies).
People can and do complete the route in a single behemoth push, but most ascents take 2 full days (in addition to being over 7,000' tall, the ridge is almost 3 miles long). There's a good midway bivy spot on a major ledge system at around half height - this is about the last relatively good place to bivy on the route.
The southern-most (left hand, when facing the mountain) of the 3 major ridges. Mostly 4th class until a slabby traverse right into a gully near the top.
