{"id":19982,"date":"2025-05-24T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19982"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:10:18","slug":"humphreys-peak-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19982","title":{"rendered":"Humphrey\u2019s Peak II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is how close we came to the summit of Mt Humphreys. We were about a quarter mile from the top. At that altitude and in my condition it would have taken another hour of scrambling over a volcanic boulder field. We wisely turned around.
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Peter was an excellent hiking companion and guide. It was because of his patience we got as far as we did. Many people warned me not to try Humphreys. I was told it was too rocky, there will be too much snow and ice, and that I was too old. I bought Microspikes<\/a> for the ice. I trained pretty hard to overcome my age (not enough at altitude) but the rocks were a formidable obstacle. It was the most difficult endurance hike I have ever attempted. Harder than Whitney or the Grand Canyon.
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This is what the trail looked like above the tree line. Having said all of the above if I had a month to train at altitude I would try it again. The views were spectacular, the weather was perfect and a grouse followed us. He was actually making grousing noises. And Peter drove home. Life is good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is how close we came to the summit of Mt Humphreys. We were about a quarter mile from the top. At that altitude and in my condition it would have taken another hour of scrambling over a volcanic boulder field. We wisely turned around. Peter was an excellent hiking companion and guide. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,5],"tags":[132,229,1467],"class_list":["post-19982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt-whitney","category-simon-says","tag-aging","tag-hiking","tag-mt-humphreys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2025-05-24-112814.jpeg?fit=1067%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}