Pulled into Lone Pine at 10pm on Tuesday night and ate McDonalds for dinner before curling up in the back of my car and getting a solid 7 hours of sleep. My plan was to start between 6-6:30am, so of course I started 7:45am (and it was already *so* hot at Whitney Portal). Made decent time to the summit (3h23m) but definitely FAF'd around a bit – I took lots of pictures and enjoyed myself. Proud of myself for how I moved on the ridge, one of those "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" kind of days on rock at altitude.
Only saw a few other climbers all day and they didn't want anything to do with me (just looked at me like I was crazy for being alone up there). Refilled my water in streams as needed while below Upper Boy Scout Lake and water was non existent above it.
Think I can do this closer to 4h15-30m, especially in cooler temps, but I won't try to do it faster until someone beats my time. So someone go beat it!