{"id":2280,"date":"2010-04-23T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:07:09","slug":"summiting-californias-mt-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/summiting-californias-mt-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"Summiting California&#8217;s Mt. Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next to the highest peak in North America,   the highest in the lower 48 may be the  known and sometimes coveted by aspiring and expert climbers alike. I have been working on my Colorado 14ers for several years in between remote climbs,     but I got the idea to start working on the California 14ers earlier this year and set out to climb the highest, Mount Whitney, first.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney is so popular that there is a limit of 100 hikers\/60 overnight per day and requires a permit between May 1 and November 1 via a lottery system. Not a big fan of planning or restrictions, I made my scheme to go in late April, after the big snows and before the lottery. The plan worked.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/alanarnette.com\/ca14ers\/whitney.php\" target=\"_blank\"> trip report <\/a>goes into detail on my successful climb and a few missteps along the way.<\/p>\n<p>This is the link to the<a href=\"http:\/\/alanarnette.com\/ca14ers\/whitney.php\" target=\"_blank\"> trip report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<\/p>\n<p>Alan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next to the highest peak in North America, Denali, the highest in the lower 48 may be the  known and sometimes coveted by aspiring and expert climbers alike. I have been working on my Colorado 14ers for several years in between remote climbs, but I got the idea to start working on the California 14ers earlier this year and set out to climb the highest, Mount Whitney, first. The plan worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2281,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,78],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california-14ers","tag-14er","tag-whitney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_00591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}