{"id":836,"date":"2006-12-15T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=836"},"modified":"2007-12-03T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:58:00","slug":"on-top-of-ol-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/12\/15\/on-top-of-ol-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"On top of ol&#8217; Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick of Best Hikes has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.besthike.com\/northamerica\/sierra_nevada\/Whitney.html\">posted a page telling all the nasty details about getting to the top of Mount Whitney. <\/a>  Why Rick likes the Whitney hike:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> no climbing gear needed<\/li>\n<li> surprisingly easy <em>if<\/em> you get good weather<\/li>\n<li> it&#8217;s a beautiful and impressive peak<\/li>\n<li> Whitney is on both the John Muir Trail and Pacific Crest Trails<\/li>\n<li>the Wilderness Permit is free<\/li>\n<li> you are only 76mi (123km) west of the lowest point in North America in Death Valley<\/li>\n<li> visiting the nearby Alabama Hills<\/li>\n<li> signing the summit register makes you feel an &#8220;alpinist&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It appears the authorities have  devised the perfect fitness test for would-be Whitney hikers: if you can successfully  navigate the internecine tangle of bureaucratic gobbledygook required to do the hike legally,  you&#8217;re mentally alert enough  to try the highest peak in the Lower 48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick of Best Hikes has posted a page telling all the nasty details about getting to the top of Mount Whitney. Why Rick likes the Whitney hike: no climbing gear needed surprisingly easy if you get good weather it&#8217;s a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/12\/15\/on-top-of-ol-whitney\/\">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],"tags":[519,158,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836"}],"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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}