{"id":514,"date":"2006-06-14T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=514"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T12:23:06","slug":"for-all-you-peak-baggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/for-all-you-peak-baggers\/","title":{"rendered":"For all you peak baggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net\/xx\/features\/82363\/\">Here&#8217;s a story on people who&#8217;ve been to the high points of all 50 states. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than a dozen states, including Kansas, Kentucky and Ohio, have highpoints with road access, letting people essentially drive to the summit. Wyoming&#8217;s Gannett Peak, in contrast, requires up to 50 miles of roundtrip backcountry hiking in the remote Wind River Mountain Range.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nTo date, 155 people are on record as having completed all 50 highpoints, according to Rowlett. Roughly 10 new people a year climb their 50th state summit and are added to the Highpointers Club&#8217;s list of completers. Plaques are awarded. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first started hiking I was all over the idea of hiking to the top of Mount Whitney, high point of the Lower 48, but the urgency taking on such a trek has faded. My current thought is the mountain will be there when I get around to it, and if for any reason it isn&#8217;t, I suspect I&#8217;ll have far greater things to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story on people who&#8217;ve been to the high points of all 50 states. More than a dozen states, including Kansas, Kentucky and Ohio, have highpoints with road access, letting people essentially drive to the summit. Wyoming&#8217;s Gannett Peak,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/for-all-you-peak-baggers\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}