{"id":628,"date":"2009-09-22T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2010-10-22T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T18:23:02","slug":"success-on-mt-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/success-on-mt-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"Success on Mt. Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of summer 2009 two friends (Lynn and Gary Clark) and I completed a day hike up on Mt. Whitney. It was a very long day, a 14h roundtrip with a pre-dawn start (7.5h up, 1h top, 5.5h down). The weather was perfect &#8211; as is often the case this time of the year &#8211; with great visibility, warm, sunny and dry with hardly any wind.<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;captions=1&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feat=flashalbum&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FtlausserPicasa%2Falbumid%2F5384362484201232209%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Whitney, the highest point of the lower 48 States, marks the 3rd of my Panamerican Peaks. It&#8217;s next nearest higher mountain (parent peak) is Pico Orizaba in Mexico, my 4th Panamerican Peak.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/tlausserPicasa\/MountWhitney?feat=directlink\">Mt. Whitney Picasa photo album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/peaks\/whitney\/\">Mt. Whitney page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of summer 2009 two friends (Lynn and Gary Clark) and I completed a day hike up on Mt. Whitney. It was a very long day, a 14h roundtrip with a pre-dawn start (7.5h up, 1h top, 5.5h down). The weather was perfect &#8211; as is often the case this time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tlausser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}