{"id":641,"date":"2016-06-11T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:52:59","slug":"pct-day-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intothewideopen.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"PCT: Day 48"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>June 7th, 2016\n

Miles Hiked: 22 + 2<\/p>\n

Total Miles: 664<\/p>\n

Start Location: Horshoe Meadow to Trail Pass at Mile 744<\/p>\n

End Location: Mile 766 Crabtree Meadow<\/p>\n

Beautiful but long day. The views were incredible of granite mountain snowy peaks and meadows and rivers. It\u2019s already after 9 and way past my bedtime, so this will be a short entry. We are staged to do the out and back of Mt. Whitney tommorrow. It is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states, beating Elbert, the tallest mountain in Colorado by only a few feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The peak doesn\u2019t look as snowy as I thought, but we are still far away. To get to the summit tommorrow we will walk about 8.5 miles and gain over 4000k feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was in this very spot about 12 years ago on my very first backpacking trip with my father and my high school friends. It is strange after so many years I am back here, like I went in a big large complicated circle to get here. Perhaps in 12 more years I\u2019ll be back here again. It just goes to show that you never know what will happen and where you may end up.<\/p>\n

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Heading to the Snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Tree and Sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Tree and Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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National Park Boundary<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Mountain Scene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 7th, 2016 Miles Hiked: 22 + 2 Total Miles: 664 Start Location: Horshoe Meadow to Trail Pass at Mile 744 End Location: Mile 766 Crabtree Meadow Beautiful but long day. The views were incredible of granite mountain snowy peaks and meadows and rivers. 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