{"id":702,"date":"2006-10-20T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=702"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:15:41","slug":"for-all-you-whitney-wannabes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/20\/for-all-you-whitney-wannabes\/","title":{"rendered":"For all you Whitney wannabes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t hiked to the highest point in the Lower 48, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildebeat.net\/index.cgi\/2006\/10\/19#E061\">WildeBeat tells you how to get there. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first started hiking I figured I <em>had<\/em> to do Mount Whitney. After all, there is a trail right to the top, you don&#8217;t need ropes or climbing partners. A marathoner I work with told me it wasn&#8217;t especially difficult. Most of the PCT and JMT hikers climb it. So, it&#8217;s very doable.  But: it&#8217;s been done. By oodles (20,000 a year, WildeBeat says).  My inner hipster wannabe tells me anything <em>that<\/em> popular must have, like, something <em>wrong<\/em> with it.  (If you listen to your inner hipster wannabe you will consume lots of inpenetrable literature and enjoy unlistenable music, and after all that effort you won&#8217;t have much ambition left for such follies as hiking to the tops of mountains. I will say, in defense of authentic hipsters, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123helpme.com\/view.asp?id=9178\">Jack Kerouac<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.uiuc.edu\/maps\/poets\/s_z\/snyder\/life.htm\">Gary Snyder<\/a> &#8212; beat poet royalty &#8212; did a fair amount of mountain climbing.  So being cool does not preclude being outdoorsy. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t hiked to the highest point in the Lower 48, WildeBeat tells you how to get there. When I first started hiking I figured I had to do Mount Whitney. After all, there is a trail right to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/20\/for-all-you-whitney-wannabes\/\">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":[153,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}