{"id":14197,"date":"2025-08-08T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14197"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:09:26","slug":"hardest-hike-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14197","title":{"rendered":"Hardest hike in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-attachment-id=\"14198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=14198\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?fit=960%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image-4.png?resize=405%2C270&amp;ssl=1 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alltrails.com\/trail\/us\/california\/skyline-trail-cactus-to-clouds\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.alltrails.com\/trail\/us\/california\/skyline-trail-cactus-to-clouds\">Cactus to Clouds<\/a> is the toughest hike in California. It&#8217;s located near Palm Springs and is a mind-boggling 19.2 mile (one way! you take a tram back down) with 10,629ft of gain. Temperatures in the summer often reach triple digits. Apparently it&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/la\/article\/california-hardest-hike-palm-springs-20298829.php\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/la\/article\/california-hardest-hike-palm-springs-20298829.php\">closed more often due to rescue operations for exhausted and dehydrated hikers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cactus to Clouds is the toughest hike in California. It&#8217;s located near Palm Springs and is a mind-boggling 19.2 mile (one way! you take a tram back down) with 10,629ft of gain. Temperatures in the summer often reach triple digits. Apparently it&#8217;s been closed more often due to rescue operations for exhausted and dehydrated hikers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3GZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14199,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions\/14199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}