{"id":3438,"date":"2019-09-01T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2019-09-06T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T03:21:03","slug":"day-134-mather-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/09\/01\/day-134-mather-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 134: Mather Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mountain pass we climbed today is called Mather Pass.<\/p>\n

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A hiker we passed on Kearsage Pass had been hiking with others on Mather a few days earlier and someone just ahead of him had slipped on icy snow and hit his head on rocks and died.<\/p>\n

By the time we were approaching it everyone we met had heard about the accident and we were able to identify the patch of snow where it happened but the snow had receded and we could walk past on the path. Nevertheless it was a sobering reminder of how quickly accidents can happen.<\/p>\n

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Down in the valley beyond the pass we went by a large group of hikers wearing day packs. Behind them came about 20 mules packed with provisions including steak, chicken and ribs, etc. Apparently you can hike the Sierras in style if you have enough money.<\/p>\n

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We are camped next to a river which we were hiking beside this afternoon and the waters are really roaring. It is a bit like being beside the beach.<\/p>\n

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The mountain pass we climbed today is called Mather Pass. A hiker we passed on Kearsage Pass had been hiking with others on Mather a few days earlier and someone just ahead of him had slipped on icy snow and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5928-01.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-Ts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}