{"id":11700,"date":"2026-07-06T11:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:10:53","slug":"pct-day-76-ca-section-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/pct-day-76-ca-section-h\/","title":{"rendered":"PCT DAY 76 – CA Section H"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mile 821.6 to 832.8 – 11.2 miles total hiked on PCT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After enjoying the night at Lower Palisade Lake, I enjoyed the sunrise and then headed north once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the lake, I had to climb down what they call the Golden Staircase. This is a very horrible set of switchbacks to climb when going southbound on the JMT. But going downwards, it was just a pleasant walk so I made it down easily<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After descending down Deer meadow, I then had to climb up into LeConte canyon to start the 4,000 foot climb up to Muir Pass, the last of the 12k passes on the PCT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ufffc I ended up camping at a nice spot in Little Pete Meadow for the night. Knowing the next day\u2019s climb would be a hard one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mile 821.6 to 832.8 – 11.2 miles total hiked on PCT After enjoying the night at Lower Palisade Lake, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PCT DAY 76 - CA Section H","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-ive-been","tag-35","tag-pct2026"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_4303.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg6j8i-32I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11702,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions\/11702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}