{"id":4416,"date":"2014-12-30T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2014-12-30T10:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:35:36","slug":"mailbox-peak-hike-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"Mailbox Peak Hike, December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mailbox Peak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> December 27, 2014<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong> 9 out of 10<br \/>\n<strong>Distance:<\/strong> 7.5 Miles \/ 12 Kilometers Roundtrip<br \/>\n<strong>Elevation Gain:<\/strong> 4,000 feet \/ 1,219 Meters<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 4 to 5 hours<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Near North Bend, Washington<br \/>\n<strong>Users Group:<\/strong> Hikers &amp; Dogs Only<br \/>\n<strong>Permits:<\/strong> Discovery Pass<br \/>\n<strong>Trail Conditions:<\/strong> Wet to Snow-packed<br \/>\n<strong>Hiking With:<\/strong> Paul Bates, Carl Brandt, Gustav Brandt, Mike Curry, Emelie Espling and Rick Massie<br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=4416&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4416 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?attachment_id=4420'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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The last time I hiked the Mailbox <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/y3ANNn\">goo.gl\/y3ANNn<\/a> was a year ago August with Rick Massie so I was past due for some grueling physical exertion.  Our group consisted of Paul Bates, Mike Curry, Emelie Espling, Rick Massie, Carl and Gustav Brandt from Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The new trail wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t open the last time I was here so I was looking forward to the new 5 mile trail on the descent to save on the knees.  The young men from Sweden was quick to take off and we eventually saw them again about 100 yards from the Mailbox on their descent.  The last 1000 feet of elevation was snow packed with blizzard like conditions on the final push to the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the many WTA volunteers that constructed the new 5 mile route to the top, but after seeing the many ill equipped \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tourist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hikers in their running shoes I think Mailbox Peak will see more rescues.  The majority people that came up the new easy route didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the proper gear to summit this intimidating peak and only putting themselves and others at risk.  I first started hiking Mailbox Peak 13 years ago when there was only a toothbrush marking the trailhead; you only came across bonafide hikers and many climbers training for Mount Rainier, sadly WTA has created another Mt. Si.<\/p>\n<p>Our group took the new longer route down which was nice on the legs but it seemed to go on forever!  We ended our hike in a heavy downpour and eventually found ourselves at the North Bend Bar &#038; Grill for cold beers and warm grub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mailbox Peak Date: December 27, 2014 Difficulty: 9 out of 10 Distance: 7.5 Miles \/ 12 Kilometers Roundtrip Elevation Gain: 4,000 feet \/ 1,219 Meters Time: 4 to 5 hours Location: Near North Bend, Washington Users Group: Hikers &amp; Dogs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/?p=4416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","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}},"categories":[5],"tags":[486,388,380,124,70,391,20,127,487],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-difficult-hikes","tag-carl-brandt","tag-emelie-espling","tag-gustav-brandt","tag-mailbox-peak","tag-mike-curry","tag-paul-bates","tag-rick-freeman","tag-rick-massie","tag-wta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jXSd-19e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wanderjunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}