<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-2019/wilderness-trek-westmont-friends.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Wilderness Trek for Westmont Friends</title><excerpt>Jeff Magee ’80 and Brad Leeger ’84—with permission from their wives, Kristine Kint Magee ’85 and Lisa Willems Leeger ’83—hiked the High Sierra Trail for nine days in July. They saved their Westmont alumni T-shirts for Day Eight and the trek to Mount Whitney’s summit. Starting the strenuous trail in Sequoia National Park, they followed it to the western side of Mount Whitney, gaining 13,303 feet in elevation and covering 72 miles.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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